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1. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
5. A joint of a finger when the fist is closed.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
15. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
16. (Greek mythology) God of the heavens.
17. A local computer network for communication between computers.
18. The herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen.
19. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
21. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
22. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
24. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
28. A small amount (especially of a drink).
29. (zoology) Of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae n.
34. A plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or ink flowers.
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
40. Formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
41. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
45. A trade language widely used in Chad.
47. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
48. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
49. A three-tone Chadic language.
53. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
54. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
56. An island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
57. An unofficial association of people or groups.
59. Covered with or resembling slime.
61. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
64. One who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people.
68. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
69. Possessing material wealth.
72. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
73. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
76. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
77. Towards the side away from the wind.
78. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
79. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
3. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
4. Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating.
5. A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Alabama.
6. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
8. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
9. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
10. A bluish transparent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen.
11. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
12. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
13. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
14. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
20. A stock or supply of foods.
23. A master's degree in business.
25. Tall fast-moving dog breed.
27. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
30. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
31. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
32. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
33. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.
35. A means of serving.
36. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
37. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
38. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx.
43. Informal terms for a mother.
44. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,870 feet high).
46. Involving the entire earth.
50. Lyrebirds and scrubbirds.
51. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
52. (trademark) A fabric made from a twilled mixture of cotton and wool.
55. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
58. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
60. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
62. Belonging to some prior time.
63. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
65. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
66. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
67. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
70. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
71. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
74. A heavy precious metallic element.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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