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1. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
4. A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators.
11. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
16. Squirrel monkeys.
17. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Intravenous beta blocker (trade name Brevibloc) that acts for only a short time.
20. Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. Oceanic sharks.
26. A special loved one.
27. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
34. (computer science) A read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data.
36. A skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part.
38. A turner with a narrow flexible blade.
39. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
40. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
41. Having only superficial plausibility.
42. Injured by bites or stings.
46. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
48. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
50. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
51. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
52. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
55. Create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material.
58. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
62. Silver-coated candy bead for decorating cakes.
64. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
70. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
71. A kind of person.
74. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
75. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
76. Mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
2. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
3. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
4. One thousandth of a second.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds.
7. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
8. A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing.
9. A large ax with a broad cutting blade.
10. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease.
11. Metal supports for logs in a fireplace.
12. Having rugged physical strength.
13. Largest known toad species.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
22. The superior of an abbey of monks.
24. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
29. Talk pompously.
30. An Asian river between China and Russia.
31. Testacean rhizopods.
32. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
33. Any system of principles or beliefs.
35. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
37. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
43. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
44. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk.
45. A Spanish male Gypsy.
47. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
49. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
53. Used of a single unit or thing.
54. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
56. An anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations.
57. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
59. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
65. The universal time coordinated time on board the spacecraft.
68. Of southern Europe.
69. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
72. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
73. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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