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1. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
5. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
11. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
15. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
16. Of or belonging to an aecium.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
19. A hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt.
21. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
22. A doctor's degree in religion.
23. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
28. The basic unit of money in Macao.
31. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
32. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
36. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
37. Offering fun and gaiety.
40. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
41. Gracefully slender.
43. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
46. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
48. The Spanish Navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719).
50. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
51. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
52. By a particular locality.
54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
56. A state in northwestern North America.
57. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
61. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
68. The sixth month of the civil year.
72. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
73. Having few if any teeth.
75. An enclosed space.
76. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
77. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
78. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
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1. Hit hard.
2. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
3. Fallow deer.
4. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
5. A bag filled with sand.
6. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
7. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
8. A state in New England.
9. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
10. First in order of importance.
11. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
12. God of fire.
13. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
14. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
27. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
29. Type genus of the Ariidae.
30. A heading that names a statute or legislative bill.
33. Cause to move back by force or influence.
34. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
35. A mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten.
38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
42. Either extremity of something that has length.
44. Great coolness and composure under strain.
45. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
47. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
49. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share.
55. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
58. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
59. Lower in esteem.
60. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
62. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
63. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
64. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
66. A quantity of no importance.
69. The last (12th) month of the year.
70. Extremely pleasing.
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
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