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1. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
4. Closed off.
12. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. French painter (born in Hungary) who was a pioneer of op art (1908-1997).
17. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
18. Cause to go crazy.
19. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
24. A fold of peritoneum supporting the viscera.
28. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
31. Having a top of a specified character.
35. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
38. Extending or lying across.
39. (prefix) Outside or outer.
41. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains.
46. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
48. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
49. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. A small island.
56. A New England state.
58. Set down according to a plan.
60. Act in a way that attracts attention.
64. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
67. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
68. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
71. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
72. Being one more than two.
73. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
74. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
75. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
76. Of or relating to or in the manner of Erasmus.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Fallow deer.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. Bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels.
5. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
6. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
7. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
8. Goddess of fate.
9. Relieve from military service.
10. A member of an ancient people living east of Babylonia as early as 4000 BC.
11. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. A thin strip (wood or metal).
13. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
14. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
20. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
23. Someone making a search or inquiry.
25. Submerged freshwater perennials.
26. Type genus of the Anatidae.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. 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.
30. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
32. Someone who plays the bagpipe.
33. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting.
34. Dislike intensely.
36. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
37. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
40. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
43. A variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation.
45. Brightest star in Centaurus.
47. Having relatively few calories.
52. A long brightly colored shawl.
53. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
54. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
55. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
57. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
59. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
61. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
62. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
63. Being seven more than fifty.
65. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
66. God of love and erotic desire.
69. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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