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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
5. The comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment.
11. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
15. Lie adjacent to another.
16. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
17. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
18. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
19. East Indian annual erect herb.
21. Of southern Europe.
24. Least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol).
28. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
29. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. Archaic name for England or Great Britain.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
40. (Brit) An area of open or forested country.
43. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
46. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
50. A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese.
53. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
55. United States film maker (1897-1991).
57. Illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts.
61. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.
65. (music) A short recitative that is melodic but is not an aria.
66. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
69. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
70. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
71. French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829).
73. A city in the European part of Russia.
74. The handle of a weapon or tool.
75. A woman who is engaged to be married.
76. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. Obvious and dull.
2. Lower in esteem.
3. Volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin.
4. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
5. American dwarf fan palms.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. A local computer network for communication between computers.
8. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
9. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
10. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
11. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
12. A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
13. 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.
14. Two items of the same kind.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
23. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
25. The largest Chilean island and the only one to be settled.
26. A member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon.
27. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
30. Flat tableland with steep edges.
32. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
33. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
34. Expel air.
36. Large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails.
37. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
41. An alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral.
42. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
44. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
45. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
47. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
48. French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827).
51. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
52. A state in midwestern United States.
54. At or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship.
56. German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20-th century German literature (1875-1926).
58. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
59. Petty quarrel.
60. God of the Underworld.
62. The female reproductive cell.
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
67. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
68. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
72. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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