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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. The father of your father or mother.
12. An honorary law degree.
15. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
16. Pasta in long slender flat strips.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. (informal) Of the highest quality.
19. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
20. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
21. Soft leather shoe.
23. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
24. Fiddler crabs.
25. (Britain) Flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea.
27. A radioactive transuranic element.
29. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
32. Stalk of a moss capsule.
34. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
38. Type and only genus of the family Esocidae.
41. Located in or toward the back or rear.
42. A Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions.
44. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
46. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
47. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
49. A housing for a radar antenna.
52. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
55. The fatty flesh of eel.
58. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
62. A drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria.
68. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
69. Something transitory.
72. (informal) Roused to anger.
73. The cry made by sheep.
74. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
77. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
78. Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
3. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
4. United States physicist who invented the bubble chamber to study subatomic particles (born in 1926).
5. A genus of Laridae.
6. Ludicrously odd.
7. A member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr peninsula in Siberia.
8. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
9. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
12. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
13. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
14. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
26. Range of what one can know or understand.
28. A 10% solution of formaldehyde in water.
30. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor.
33. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
35. (South African) An ear of corn.
36. A white or colorless mineral (BaSO4).
37. The bivalent radical UO2 which forms salts with acids.
39. Make reference to.
40. An accidental happening.
43. Willing to face danger.
45. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
48. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
50. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
51. A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure.
53. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
54. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
56. An informal term for a father.
57. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
59. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
61. English pianist (1890-1965).
63. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
64. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
66. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
70. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
71. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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