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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. Something hard to endure.
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
15. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
16. A formal written defense of something you believe in strongly.
17. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
18. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
19. In a random manner.
20. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
21. Valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees.
24. Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall.
27. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
28. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
32. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians.
36. A room used primarily for sleeping.
38. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
40. A thick sweet sticky liquid.
41. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
46. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
47. Supporting stalk or stemlike structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap.
49. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
51. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
55. A state in northwestern North America.
58. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
63. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
66. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
70. A healthy capacity for vigorous activity.
71. The condition of having no arms.
73. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
74. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
75. West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood.
76. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason.
3. An embarrassing mistake.
4. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
5. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
6. A range horse of the western United States.
7. Late time of life.
8. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
9. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
10. Land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.
11. A branch of the Tai languages.
12. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
13. Type genus of the Ranidae.
14. By bad luck.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. Smelling of beer.
25. A person forced to flee from home or country.
26. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
29. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
30. Large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common.
31. African antelope with ridged curved horns.
33. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
34. Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants).
35. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
37. An honorary degree in science.
39. Being four more than forty.
42. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
43. Highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide.
44. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
50. English monk and scholar (672-735).
52. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
53. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
56. A Russian river.
57. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
59. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
60. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
61. Divulge information or secrets.
62. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
64. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British).
65. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
67. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
68. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
69. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
72. Being nine more than ninety.
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