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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
11. Related to or located at the back.
15. A city in northern India.
16. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
17. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
18. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
19. A ceremonial procession including people marching.
20. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
21. American printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752).
23. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia.
27. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
32. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
33. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
34. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
40. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
44. Wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. (informal) Of the highest quality.
49. (Judeo-Christian religion) Chief spirit of evil and adversary of God.
50. An associate degree in nursing.
52. Worn away as by water or ice or wind.
54. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
57. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
59. Mix up or confuse.
63. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
69. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
71. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
72. A historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea.
75. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
76. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
77. Eruption on a mucous membrane (as the inside of the mouth) occurring as a symptom of a disease.
78. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. An elaborate song for solo voice.
4. A person who lives and works on land.
5. Flesh of a castrated male chicken.
6. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
7. Turn into curds,as of dairy products.
8. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
9. A genus of Ploceidae.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
11. Wild and domestic cattle.
12. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
13. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
14. Sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Mohammed during his life at Mecca and Medina.
22. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
24. Ground snakes.
28. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
30. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
31. The dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho.
35. A decree that prohibits something.
36. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
37. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
41. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
42. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. To a severe or serious degree.
53. A native of ancient Troy.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
58. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
60. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
61. A French river.
62. Order by virtue of superior authority.
64. The basic unit of money in Peru.
65. A Loloish language.
66. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
67. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
68. Soft creamy white cheese.
70. Not reflecting light.
73. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
74. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
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