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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. Having the same sound (especially vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables.
12. A rapid bustling commotion.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Shrubby herb cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy scarlet flowers.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. A family of Ural-Altaic languages.
20. The sound made by a horse.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Any of various small biting flies.
25. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
26. Highly excited.
28. Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment.
31. German biologist and philosopher.
34. A notice of someone's death.
36. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
40. French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986).
42. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
43. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
44. Being nine more than ninety.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
49. Hair resembling thatched roofing material.
51. Goat grass.
53. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
54. The amount a salary is increased.
56. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
61. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
63. Wood of a larch tree.
65. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
69. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
75. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
76. The academic world.
77. Divulge information or secrets.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
5. Any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup.
6. The largest city of China.
7. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
8. After a negative statement used to indicate that the next statement is similarly negative.
9. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. A city of northern Morocco at the west end of the Strait of Gibraltar.
12. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
13. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
14. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
21. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
23. Of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture.
27. A state in northwestern North America.
29. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
30. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
32. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
33. (Greek mythology) A sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine.
35. Summer cypress.
37. An island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago.
38. Start abruptly.
39. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
41. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
46. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
50. Type genus of the Triglidae.
52. Water frozen in the solid state.
55. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.
57. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
58. The amount of money needed to purchase something.
59. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
60. A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay.
62. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
66. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
70. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
73. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
74. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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