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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual.
11. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
15. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
16. United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928).
17. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
18. A board with the alphabet on it.
20. Turn up, loosen, or remove earth.
21. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
22. A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed).
24. A small membrane-covered opening (especially one in the bone between the middle and inner ear).
26. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
28. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
29. The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting.
32. Regional and archaic.
36. Being nothing more than specified.
38. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
39. Goddess of fertility.
42. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment.
50. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
52. A caress with the lips.
53. (Hinduism) Term of respect for a Brahmin sage.
56. A thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery).
58. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
59. A soiled or discolored appearance.
61. Humorously vulgar.
63. Be teeming, be abuzz.
67. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
68. The process of flowing in.
71. Jordan's port.
73. (Irish) The sea personified.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
77. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
78. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
79. A quantity of no importance.
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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 fit of shivering.
3. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
4. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
5. A state in midwestern United States.
6. Music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues.
7. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
8. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
9. Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life.
10. Having few if any teeth.
11. (Greek mythology) The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
12. A milkshake made with malt powder.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
19. Influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941).
23. Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC).
25. Usually good-naturedly mischievous.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
30. Mouselike jumping rodent.
31. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
33. Lack of normal muscular tension or tonus.
34. Failing in what duty requires.
35. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
37. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
40. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
41. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
44. Squash bugs.
45. Informal terms for a mother.
46. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
47. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
49. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
51. A genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae.
54. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
55. Biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root.
57. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
60. Of or relating to or characteristic of Texas or its residents.
62. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
64. An informal term for a father.
65. In bed.
66. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
69. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
70. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
72. Range of what one can know or understand.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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