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1. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
4. Covered with paving material.
11. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
17. Anything that serves as an enticement.
18. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
20. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
22. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
23. A bachelor's degree in religion.
26. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
31. Ground snakes.
34. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
35. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
38. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
39. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
41. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
42. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
46. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
48. Cosmopolitan genus of ferns.
50. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal.
52. A monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal.
53. Marked by care and persistent effort.
56. Of a tire.
57. Hardened sugary exudation of various trees.
58. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
60. The visual property of something that shines with reflected light.
63. Any plant of the genus Erica.
67. A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering.
69. A social division of (usually preliterate) people.
72. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
73. Any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
77. The Algonquian language of the Malecite and Passamaquody peoples.
78. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
4. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
5. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
6. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. An uproarious party.
9. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
10. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
11. A vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song).
12. An associate degree in applied science.
13. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
14. A major god.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
24. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
25. Filled with a great quantity.
28. Having leadership guidance.
29. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
30. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
32. Reach a destination.
33. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
36. Examine or consider with attention and in detail.
37. Having or joined by a seam or seams.
40. English essayist (1775-1834).
43. American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792).
44. Adjust or accustom to.
45. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
47. A condition characterized by abnormal deposits of melanin (especially in the skin).
49. Of or being the lowest female voice.
51. The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
54. French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980).
55. Arrived at without due care or effort.
59. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
61. Engage or hire for work.
62. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
64. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
68. An accountant certified by the state.
70. Take in solid food.
71. An informal term for a father.
74. Being nine more than forty.
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