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1. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
5. Summer cypress.
11. The property of being large in mass.
15. American professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948).
16. Growing old.
17. English essayist (1775-1834).
18. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
19. Relating to or of the nature of a zone.
21. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
24. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
25. A state of southwestern India.
28. A tool for driving something with force.
31. (of eggs) No longer edible.
34. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
35. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
36. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
37. United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975).
39. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
43. Disappear gradually.
46. Periodically accumulated over time.
48. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
50. Burst or split open, as of flowers and seeds when releasing pollen or seeds.
51. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
54. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
55. (Old Testament) King of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC).
58. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
60. Verbal abuse.
61. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
63. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
67. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
68. Habitual mode of behavior.
71. The cry made by sheep.
72. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
73. An instrument that performs analyses.
74. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
75. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
76. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
77. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
2. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
3. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
4. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
5. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
6. Highly excited.
7. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
8. An arthropod family including.
9. Situated away from an area's coast or border.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. (formal) A person who announces important news.
12. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
13. A shoe for swimming.
14. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
20. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
22. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
26. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
27. The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
29. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
30. New Zealand conifer.
32. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
33. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
38. Deprive of certain characteristics.
40. An extreme state of adversity.
41. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
42. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
44. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
45. A horizontal bar that goes across something.
47. (Greek mythology) Fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
52. An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate.
53. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
56. A city in north central Nigeria.
57. A hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire.
59. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
62. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
64. Very dark black.
65. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
66. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
69. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
70. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
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