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1. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
4. (of mines and mining) Worked from the exposed surface.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. In a serial manner.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. A black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. A soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation.
23. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
24. A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives.
26. Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce.
29. Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected.
32. A genus of Nymphalidae.
36. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
38. Lacking funds.
39. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
40. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
42. Plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials).
43. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
45. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
47. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
48. Malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet.
51. Avatar of Vishnu.
52. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
53. Lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat.
55. Marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup.
58. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
60. Hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike.
62. (of a liquid) Treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification.
64. A city and port in northern Jutland.
68. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
69. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
72. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
73. A resource.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
77. Towards the side away from the wind.
78. A deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States.
79. A capacious bag or basket.
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1. A sudden very loud noise.
2. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. English playwright (1929-1994).
5. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin).
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.
8. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
9. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
10. A favorite saying of a sect or political group.
11. Cast repeatedly in the same kind of role.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
14. A human female who does housework.
22. (music) The system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written.
25. A lover who necks.
27. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
28. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
30. One (as a judge) who examines and settles a case.
31. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
33. The activity of keeping something secret.
34. A colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins.
35. Designated by a name or title.
37. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
44. Trade name for a drug containing an antihistamine and a decongestant.
46. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
49. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
50. Something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured v 1.
54. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
56. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
57. Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.
59. Suggestive of the supernatural.
61. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
63. An informal term for a father.
65. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
66. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
67. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
70. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
71. (informal) Of the highest quality.
75. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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