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1. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
4. A herbicide used to control weeds (especially among crops).
12. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. Occurring or existing before birth.
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
18. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
19. A housing for a radar antenna.
20. Affect with wonder.
22. City in northwestern Jordan.
24. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
25. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
26. A city in central New York.
28. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
31. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
33. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
37. Absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters).
40. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
42. (Irish) The sea personified.
43. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
46. Used of a single unit or thing.
49. Of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language.
50. Genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs.
54. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
55. Having only superficial plausibility.
56. Of or relating to the nervous system.
60. Being nine more than ninety.
64. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters.
66. Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815).
68. A Scottish word.
69. A genus of Scolopacidae.
72. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
73. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
75. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
76. Towards the side away from the wind.
77. Perceptible especially by the eye.
78. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
2. The content of cognition.
3. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
4. Small fatty European fish.
5. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
6. Relating to the study or practice of medicine.
7. Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule.
8. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
9. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
12. The act of scanning.
13. Similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region.
14. A branch of the Tai languages.
21. A master's degree in library science.
23. Calculator consisting of a cord with attached cords.
27. Heal or recover.
29. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
30. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
32. The sixth month of the civil year.
34. An awkward stupid person.
35. Suggestive of the supernatural.
36. Impressive in scale.
38. The official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
41. Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
48. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
51. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
52. A sudden involuntary movement.
53. A contorted facial expression.
57. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
58. (electronics) A sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients).
59. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
61. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
65. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.
67. A thrusting blow with a knife.
70. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
71. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
74. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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