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1. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
5. The near or foreseeable future.
11. Indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration.
15. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
16. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
17. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
18. Resulting from nurture.
20. The ending of a series or sequence.
21. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
22. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
25. Advanced in years.
26. Go with, fall together.
28. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
31. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
34. Any plant of the genus Hibiscus.
38. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
40. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
42. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
44. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
46. An associate degree in nursing.
47. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
49. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
51. A woman who wears clothes to display fashions.
54. Small Old and New World herons.
56. Loss of hair (especially on the head) or wool or feathers.
58. Make visible.
59. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
61. In an early stage of development.
69. The cry made by sheep.
70. A smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows.
73. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
74. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
75. One related on the mother's side.
76. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
77. A negative.
78. City in central Iran.
79. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
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1. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
2. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
3. Any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-gray in color.
4. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
5. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
6. A natural talent.
7. A fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait and Southern Yemen and Yemen.
8. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
9. A member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah.
10. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
12. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
13. A feeling of intense anger.
14. Toward the mouth or oral region.
19. Air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine.
23. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
24. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
27. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
30. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
32. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
33. Relating to the pineal body.
35. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
36. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
37. (Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.
39. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
43. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
45. Any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products.
48. A bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century).
50. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
52. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
53. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
55. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
57. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
60. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
62. Informal terms for a mother.
63. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
64. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. The content of cognition.
67. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
68. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
71. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
72. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
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