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1. An informal conversation.
5. (Greek mythology) Immortal winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa.
12. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
15. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
16. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
19. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
20. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
22. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
24. The basic unit of money on Malta.
25. Used of men.
26. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
28. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
30. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
31. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
34. A town in northern Egypt.
38. German romantic poet (1787-1862).
40. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
41. Humble request for help.
44. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
45. A sudden and violent collapse.
48. Being seven more than fifty.
51. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
52. Altered from an originally straight condition.
53. A primeval personification of air and breath.
54. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
57. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
58. Short and fat.
61. A republic in northwestern South America.
66. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
68. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
69. Liquid that is spilled.
72. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
73. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
74. The mints.
76. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
77. Either extremity of something that has length.
78. A tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
2. An island in the West Indies.
3. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
4. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
5. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
6. Morally bad or wrong.
7. Any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind.
8. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
9. A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points.
10. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
11. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal.
12. Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria.
13. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
14. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
21. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. A state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility.
29. A method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan.
32. Related on the mother's side.
33. Someone whose business is advertising.
35. Possessing life.
36. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
39. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
42. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
43. Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers.
46. Any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals.
47. Eurasian plant apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally.
49. Partiality that is not fair or equitable.
50. Found along western Atlantic coast.
55. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
56. A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
62. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
63. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
64. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
65. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
67. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
70. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
71. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
75. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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