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1. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
4. Cock of the rocks.
12. A light touch or stroke.
15. An affirmative.
16. Of writing or narration.
17. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
18. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
20. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
22. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
24. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
25. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
26. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
30. The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp.
37. (Greek mythology) A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis.
38. Before noon.
40. A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Alabama.
42. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
44. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
45. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
46. (prefix) Within.
47. The act of scanning.
49. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
52. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
54. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
58. An associate degree in nursing.
59. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
60. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
61. Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie.
65. A republic in southeastern Europe.
70. Mostly tropical songbird.
72. (informal) Roused to anger.
73. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
74. Beside one another in a row or rank.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
78. A festival featuring African-American culture.
79. Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to.
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1. Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner.
2. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
3. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
4. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
5. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
6. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
7. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
8. Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood.
9. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
10. A floor covering.
11. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
12. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
19. An African river.
21. People having the same social or economic status.
23. A state in New England.
27. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
28. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
32. English poet.
33. A Loloish language.
34. The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
35. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
36. (British English) A small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater.
39. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
41. Make amends for.
43. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
48. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
50. Obvious and dull.
51. A decree that prohibits something.
53. (Greek mythology) Queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus.
55. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
56. A protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains.
57. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
62. Antibacterial agent (trade names Mandelamine and Urex) that is contained in many products that are used to treat urinary infections.
63. Tropical Asian starlings.
64. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
66. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
67. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
68. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
69. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
71. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
75. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
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