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1. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
4. Used of the language of the deaf.
12. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
15. Fiddler crabs.
16. A storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds.
17. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
18. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. The sixth month of the civil year.
25. Avatar of Vishnu.
27. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
28. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.
31. (often followed by `of') Not aware.
34. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
35. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
39. Subject to a ruling authority.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. The ability to form mental images of things or events.
44. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
47. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
48. Being one more than fifty.
50. Battle in the American Revolutionary War.
53. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
56. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
60. Type genus of the Majidae.
64. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
66. Reading carefully with intent to remember.
69. Soft blue-gray mineral.
71. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
72. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
73. Support from beneath.
75. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. A category in some early taxonomies.
78. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
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1. South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers.
2. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
5. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
6. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
7. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
8. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
9. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
10. Information known only to a special group.
11. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
12. A radioactive transuranic element.
13. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
14. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
19. The person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment.
22. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
26. Wildly disordered.
29. Twist or braid together, interlace.
30. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
32. The practice of living without clothes for reasons of health.
33. Wood of any of various alder trees.
36. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
37. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
38. An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal).
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
49. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
51. Abnormally small production of urine.
52. An unusually small individual.
54. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
55. An artist of consummate skill.
57. An informal term for a father.
58. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
59. Small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia Tibet and Mongolia.
61. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.
62. Complacently or inanely foolish.
63. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
65. Characteristic of false pride.
67. (informal) Of the highest quality.
68. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
70. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
74. 1/10 gram.
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