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1. A primeval personification of air and breath.
5. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
12. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
15. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
16. German biologist and philosopher.
17. Provided with artificial light.
18. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
19. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
21. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
22. In bed.
24. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
25. An informal term for a father.
26. Prelates collectively.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
31. Extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit.
39. Dutch Renaissance scholar and Roman Catholic theologian who attacked the theology of Martin Luther (1466-1536).
41. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
42. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
43. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
44. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
46. Chief deity of Zoroastrianism.
48. A boy or man.
50. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
51. (Brit) An area of open or forested country.
53. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
54. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
55. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
57. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
59. An antineoplastic drug used to treat certain malignancies.
63. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
71. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
72. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
75. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
76. The basic unit of money in Albania.
77. A great raja.
78. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. A cravat with wide square ends.
2. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
3. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
4. United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940).
5. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
6. A parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados.
7. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
8. Being nine more than ninety.
9. 10 grams.
10. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
11. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
12. All the plant life in a particular region.
13. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
14. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
20. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
23. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
28. A system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature.
32. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
33. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
34. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
35. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
36. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
37. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
38. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
40. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
45. 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.
47. Of or being the lowest female voice.
49. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
52. The basic unit of money in Indonesia.
56. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
58. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
60. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
61. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
62. Type genus of the Amiidae.
64. An opening into or through something.
65. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
66. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
69. The month following March and preceding May.
70. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
73. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
74. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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