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1. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
4. Wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi.
12. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
15. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. Common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool).
17. A periodic paperback publication.
18. Edible agaric that is pale lilac when young.
20. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
21. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
22. A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail.
23. An informal term for a father.
24. The opposite of entropy.
26. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
28. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
32. A state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border.
37. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
39. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
40. (botany) Of or relating to or functioning as a cambium.
42. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
43. The provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada).
45. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
47. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
48. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
50. Everything you own.
52. A toilet in England.
53. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
55. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
59. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
61. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. Of or relating to a basin.
72. Take in solid food.
73. English monk and scholar (672-735).
74. A fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar).
75. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
76. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
77. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
78. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
2. Of a pale purple color.
3. Selected as the best.
4. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
5. Usually large hard-shelled seed.
6. An appraisal of the state of affairs.
7. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
8. (Greek mythology) God of the heavens.
9. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
10. (grammar) Having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category.
11. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
12. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
13. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
14. Advanced in years.
19. (superlative of `bad') Most wanting in quality or value or condition.
25. Plaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy.
27. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
29. Type genus of the Anatidae.
30. Become wider.
31. Without offspring.
33. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
34. Australian clover fern.
35. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
36. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
38. Offering little or no hope.
41. A state in midwestern United States.
44. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
46. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
54. One of the Aesir having a strong and beautiful body but a dull mind.
56. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
60. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
62. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
63. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
64. Any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers.
65. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
66. A sudden short attack.
67. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
70. An associate degree in applied science.
71. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
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