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1. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
5. Any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling.
11. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
15. Tasting sour like a lemon.
16. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
17. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
18. State of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior.
20. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
21. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
22. Wildly disordered.
24. (of the feet of some animals) Not webbed.
26. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
29. A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s.
32. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
33. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
37. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
39. Singing jazz.
41. British informal term.
42. Occurring during the middle of the week.
46. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
47. A resident of Utah.
48. Able to see.
52. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
54. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
55. Having help.
57. Deeply moved.
58. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
64. A radioactive transuranic element.
70. A thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
72. A resource.
73. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
74. Turning about an axis.
76. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
77. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
78. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
79. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
2. A quantity of no importance.
3. Island in West Indies.
4. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
5. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
6. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
7. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
8. A city in Veneto.
9. (of mines and mining) Worked from the exposed surface.
10. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
11. A motley assortment of things.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. Being nothing more than specified.
14. Marked by the reception of pay.
19. Informal terms for a mother.
23. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
25. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
27. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
28. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
30. God of the underworld and judge of the dead.
31. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
34. A genus of Indriidae.
35. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
36. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
38. A cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin).
40. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. Type genus of the Sulidae.
44. On, to, or at the top.
45. A Chinese gambling game.
49. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
50. Give an education to.
51. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
53. Tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
59. A large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm.
61. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
63. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
65. Erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds.
66. A formation of people or things one beside another.
67. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
68. A city of central China.
69. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
71. The sixth day of the week.
75. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
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