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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. A small two-wheeled cart for one passenger.
12. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
15. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
16. The range within which a voice can be heard.
17. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. Informal terms for urination.
20. Young eel.
22. Clouding of the natural lens of the eye.
25. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
26. A Loloish language.
28. Slightly pale.
32. A person of Iranian descent.
35. Spanish singer noted for his ballads and love songs (born in 1943).
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
41. The middle of the day.
42. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
44. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
46. A loud utterance.
47. 100 sene equal 1 tala.
48. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
49. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
51. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
54. A port city in southwestern Iran.
57. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
59. United States labor leader who organized farm workers (born 1927).
63. A city of southeastern Mexico.
68. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
69. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
72. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
73. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
74. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
76. The longest division of geological time.
77. A strong emotion.
78. A great raja.
79. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. Singing jazz.
4. Put down by force or intimidation.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
6. The first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War.
7. The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean.
8. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
9. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. Forces that provide energy and direction.
12. Genus of African timber trees.
13. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
14. Denuded of leaves.
21. Being eight more than sixty.
23. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. An enclosed space.
29. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
30. United States comic actor in silent films.
31. A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval).
33. Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574).
34. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
36. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
37. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
40. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
43. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
45. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
50. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
52. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
53. The capital and largest city of Lithuania.
55. Make steady.
56. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
58. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
60. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
61. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
62. A drama set to music.
64. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
65. Great merriment.
66. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
67. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
70. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
71. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
75. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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