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1. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
4. The quality of nearness to the truth or the true value.
12. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. French symbolist poet noted for his free verse (1842-1898).
17. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
18. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
19. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting.
20. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
22. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
24. An endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it v 1.
25. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
33. (of speed) Having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level.
34. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
37. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
41. A person who delivers a speech or oration.
42. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
45. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
46. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
47. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
49. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
53. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
55. Type genus of Geastraceae.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
57. Constituting or relating to a tail.
59. The highest level or degree attainable.
61. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
70. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
73. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
76. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
77. (informal) Of the highest quality.
78. The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style (tight bodice and narrow waist and flowing pleated skirt) that became known as the New Look (1905-1957).
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
5. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
6. A coupling to attach a drawbar to a plow or wagon or trailer etc..
7. In or of the month preceding the present one.
8. Dried grape.
9. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians.
10. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
11. Not only so, but.
12. A four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine.
13. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
14. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
21. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
23. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
28. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. 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.
32. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
35. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
36. An elaborate and systematic plan of action.
38. A desert in central Asia.
39. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
40. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
43. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
50. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
51. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
52. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
54. Bar temporarily.
58. Not subjected to an aging process.
60. Lower in esteem.
62. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
64. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
66. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
69. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
71. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
72. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
74. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
75. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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