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1. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
4. A sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. Approximately the last 10,000 years.
17. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
18. Of or relating to Slavic languages.
20. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
21. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. An exaggerated opinion of your own importance.
27. An important question that is in dispute and must be settled.
30. A rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums (most of it written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon).
32. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
35. A charge in the shape of a circle.
37. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
39. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
40. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
41. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
43. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
45. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
47. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
50. God of the underworld.
51. The sixth month of the civil year.
54. A doctor's degree in optometry.
57. Washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water.
60. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
62. Extremely pleasing.
68. An associate degree in applied science.
70. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
73. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. Perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.
76. A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.
77. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
78. Softly bright or radiant.
79. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
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1. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
2. Occupied or in the control of.
3. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. Rod-shaped gram-negative enterobacteria.
5. Any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock.
6. Being nine more than forty.
7. (logic) A proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning.
8. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
9. An irritating or obnoxious person.
10. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
11. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
13. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
14. (British) Informal term for the nose v 1.
19. Love of or taste for fine objects of art.
24. Tested and proved useful or correct.
25. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
26. A person who eats human flesh.
28. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
29. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. Made tough by habitual exposure.
33. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
34. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.
36. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
38. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
44. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
53. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
55. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
56. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
58. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
59. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
63. Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted.
64. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
65. A sudden short attack.
66. Not in action or at work.
67. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
69. An enclosed space.
71. Rate of revolution of a motor.
72. A trivial lie.
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