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1. At or constituting a border or edge.
5. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
11. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
15. Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears.
16. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
17. (Greek mythology) God of love.
18. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
20. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
21. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
22. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
24. A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father).
26. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
29. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
32. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
40. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
41. Being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
48. By bad luck.
50. Held back.
51. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
53. An informal term for a father.
54. An associate degree in nursing.
55. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
57. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
64. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
68. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
69. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
73. Long and thin and often limp.
74. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
76. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
77. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
78. (of eggs) No longer edible.
79. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
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1. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
2. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
3. A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone.
4. Register formally.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. A city in southeastern South Korea.
9. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
10. An informal conversation.
11. Inferior in rank or status.
12. Causing nasal discharge.
13. 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.
14. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
19. The amount a salary is increased.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
28. (informal) Exceptionally good.
30. A port city in southwestern Iran.
31. The capital of Morocco.
36. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. Toward the mouth or oral region.
39. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
42. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
45. A midwestern state on the Great Plains.
46. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
52. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
56. An uproarious party.
58. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
59. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
62. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
63. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
65. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
66. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
67. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
70. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
71. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
72. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
75. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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