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1. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
4. Someone who plays the game of golf.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. The month following February and preceding April.
16. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1.
20. Absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters).
22. North American rat snakes.
24. Being ten more than one hundred thirty.
25. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
26. A nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century.
27. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
29. A state in southeastern United States.
34. The closing section of a musical composition.
39. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
41. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
43. Read anew.
44. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
45. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
47. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
48. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
50. Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution.
51. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
56. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
58. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
61. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
64. Of or relating to or denoting numbers.
68. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
69. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
76. A form of address for a married woman.
77. Lacking excess flesh.
78. Having two feet.
79. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. To fix or set securely or deeply.
2. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
3. A step in walking or running.
4. Of or containing lithium.
5. Not out.
6. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
7. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
8. The second largest city in Tunisia.
9. East Asian perennial herbs.
10. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
11. Greek mythology.
12. Very sophisticated especially because of surfeit.
13. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
14. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
19. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
21. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
23. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
28. A stock or supply of foods.
30. A festival featuring African-American culture.
31. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
32. Civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform.
33. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
35. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
36. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
37. An informal term for a father.
38. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
40. The largest of the Balearic Islands.
42. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. An African river.
52. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
54. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
59. Father of the storm gods Marut.
60. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
62. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
63. Fallow deer.
65. Avatar of Vishnu.
66. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
67. Money in the form of bills or coins.
70. A small drink of liquor.
71. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
74. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
75. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
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