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1. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
5. 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).
11. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
15. Very fertile.
16. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
17. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
18. Of or being the lowest female voice.
19. Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions.
20. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
21. Australian moundbird.
24. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
25. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
30. Collect or gather.
34. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
35. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
36. An audiotape recording of sound.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
41. In bed.
45. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
46. A quantity of no importance.
47. A port in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river.
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
53. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
56. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
62. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
63. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
64. Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position.
65. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
66. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
69. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
70. A patient who has been vaccinated.
72. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
73. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
74. Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts.
75. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. Using speech rather than writing.
2. An account describing incidents or events.
3. The basic unit of money in Peru.
4. Capital of modern Macedonia.
5. God of the Underworld.
6. Fiddler crabs.
7. A pinkish lilac crystal form of the mineral spodumene that is used as a gemstone.
8. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
9. An official who weighs and records the weight.
10. An associate degree in applied science.
11. A deep bow.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. A written proposal or reminder.
14. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
22. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
23. (prefix) Half or partial.
26. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
27. Of a tire.
28. Informal terms for a mother.
29. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
32. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
33. Characterized by dignity and propriety.
38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. (usually used in combination) Having value of a specified kind.
42. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods.
43. The eleventh month of the civil year.
44. Parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles.
48. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
49. Atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves).
52. Of or relating to the ancient Greek city of Argos or its people.
54. Similar things placed in order or happening one after another.
55. A white trivalent metallic element.
57. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
58. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
59. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
60. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
61. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
67. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
68. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
71. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
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