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1. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
4. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
11. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
15. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
16. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
17. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
18. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
19. (in India and Burma) A member of an armed gang of robbers.
20. Any plant of the genus Erica.
21. A contorted facial expression.
24. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
25. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
26. Having winglike extensions.
28. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
30. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. An associate degree in nursing.
33. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
37. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
41. An aromatic balsam.
42. Distant in either space or time.
43. A quantity of no importance.
44. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance.
52. Goddess of dawn.
55. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
57. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
58. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
60. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
63. Young of domestic cattle.
65. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
74. (Old Testament) King of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC).
76. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
78. An especially rich vein of precious ore.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
2. United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914).
3. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
4. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
5. With rapid movements.
6. A workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding).
7. A rapid bustling commotion.
8. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
9. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
10. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
11. United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933).
12. The capital of Western Samoa.
13. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
14. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
22. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
23. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
27. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
29. The center of the Earth.
31. A basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket.
34. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
35. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
36. In a softened tone.
38. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. God of death.
46. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
47. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
48. Make numb or insensitive.
51. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
53. A port city in southwestern Iran.
54. An enclosed space.
56. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
59. An inflammatory swelling or sore.
61. Not in action or at work.
62. Type genus of the Ranidae.
64. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
66. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
67. A Loloish language.
68. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
70. A young woman making her debut into society.
71. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
72. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
75. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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