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1. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
5. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
12. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
15. A member of an Indian people of northern California living along the Russian River valley and adjacent Pacific coast.
16. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
20. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
21. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
22. French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955).
24. Either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.
26. English monk and scholar (672-735).
28. Located in or toward the back or rear.
29. Of or relating to the science of acoustics.
32. A town in southwestern Idaho.
36. A public announcement (in church) of a proposed marriage.
37. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
40. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
41. In bed.
44. 10 grams.
48. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
49. Squash bugs.
51. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
53. A common cyst of the skin.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
61. With rapid movements.
63. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
65. Showing a natural aptitude for something.
69. Black tropical American cuckoo.
70. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
73. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. Extremely robust.
77. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
78. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
79. The quality of a person's voice.
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1. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
2. Arising from or going to the root.
3. An Asian river between China and Russia.
4. Not growing or changing.
5. Beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set.
6. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
7. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
8. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
9. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
10. An ordered reference standard.
11. A resident of Kansas.
12. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
13. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
14. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
19. People having the same social or economic status.
23. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
25. Derived by copying something else.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
31. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
33. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
34. An ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice.
35. Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain.
38. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
39. The cry made by sheep.
42. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
43. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
47. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
50. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
52. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
55. Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC).
56. The basic unit of money in Macao.
57. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
58. Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers.
59. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
60. Type genus of the Vespidae.
62. A formal expression of praise.
64. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
66. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
67. Very dark black.
68. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
71. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
72. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
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