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1. A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans.
5. A simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
16. Wild llama.
17. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
18. A hard medicated paste made of lard or oil mixed with wax or resin.
20. Battle in World War I (1917).
21. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
22. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
24. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
26. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
29. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
32. (Assyrian) God of storms and wind.
36. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
40. (informal) Having or revealing stupidity.
41. A state in midwestern United States.
42. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. A form of address for a man.
48. A sheath worn to protect a finger.
49. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
56. An island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
58. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
61. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
64. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
68. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
71. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
73. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
74. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
76. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
77. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
78. City in central Iran.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
2. A person who is of equal standing with another in a group.
3. French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955).
4. A view of the sea.
5. American novelist (1909-1955).
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. Common Indian weaverbird.
8. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
9. Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers.
10. Water frozen in the solid state.
11. A canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse).
12. By bad luck.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. Be obedient to.
19. Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself.
23. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
25. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
31. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
33. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
34. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
35. An antifungal and antibiotic (trade names Mycostatin and Nystan) discovered in New York State.
37. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
38. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
39. God of death.
43. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
46. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
47. Of or relating to or in the manner of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
50. Expected hopefully.
51. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
53. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
55. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
57. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
60. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
62. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
63. Set down according to a plan.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. Perceive sound.
69. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
70. A city in north central Morocco.
72. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
75. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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