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1. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
5. A long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted.
11. Having relatively few calories.
15. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
16. The part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent.
17. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. Chief port and economic center of Nigeria.
21. A person with the same name as another.
23. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
24. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
25. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
27. Exhibiting self-importance.
30. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
33. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
34. Noisy talk.
37. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
39. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
41. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
43. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
49. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
50. Big-eyed scad.
52. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
53. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
54. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
57. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
61. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
65. A region (and former kingdom) in northwestern Spain on the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. Put into a rage.
72. Ludicrously odd.
73. A police officer who investigates crimes.
74. Unrestrained by convention or morality.
76. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
77. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
78. Capable of being raised to an upright position.
79. Remaining after all deductions.
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1. The act of scanning.
2. 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.
3. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
4. The superior of a group of nuns.
5. Strike with a flat object.
6. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
7. With eagerness.
8. An international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade.
9. A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein.
10. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
11. Someone who wastes time.
12. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
13. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
14. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
20. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
22. Fill to satisfaction.
26. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
28. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950).
29. Jordan's port.
31. A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem.
32. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
35. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
36. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
38. Toward the mouth or oral region.
40. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
42. Wild and domestic cattle.
47. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor.
48. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
51. Avatar of Vishnu.
55. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
56. A person who gains weight.
58. The face or front of a building.
59. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
60. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
62. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
63. Someone employed to conduct others.
64. A cravat with wide square ends.
66. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
67. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
70. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
71. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
75. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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