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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
5. (sports) With hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
15. The sixth month of the civil year.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum.
17. An accidental happening.
18. A beautiful and graceful girl.
19. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
20. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of Andorra or its people.
24. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
25. A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump.
28. Type genus of the Juglandaceae.
31. Increased pressure in the eyeball due to obstruction of the outflow of aqueous humor.
35. Type genus of the Annonaceae.
36. A periodic paperback publication.
37. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
40. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
42. A port in southwestern Scotland.
43. A kiln used to reduce naturally occuring forms of calcium carbonate to lime.
48. Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle.
49. Veloute or brown sauce with sauteed chopped onion and dry white wine and sour cream.
50. Declare untrue.
51. An iconic mental representation.
53. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
54. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
55. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
56. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
58. A tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice.
64. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
70. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
71. Having a sunken area.
75. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. Anticonvulsant (trade name Depokene) used to prevent some kinds of seizures.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
2. Chief port of Yemen.
3. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
4. A Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish).
5. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
6. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina.
7. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
8. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
9. An antibiotic (a semisynthetic oral penicillin (trade names Amoxil and Larotid and Polymox and Trimox and Augmentin)) used to treat bacterial infections.
10. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
12. Hit hard.
13. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. A city in southwestern Virginia.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A deep bow.
29. Showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom.
30. Indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial.
32. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking.
34. United by being of the same opinion.
38. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
39. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
41. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
44. A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes.
45. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
46. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
47. An advantageous purchase.
52. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
57. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
59. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
60. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
61. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
62. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
63. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
65. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
66. God of love and erotic desire.
68. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
72. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
73. Half the width of an em.
74. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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