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1. A former French coin of low denomination.
4. Having no sole.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
15. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
16. Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium.
17. A column of light (as from a beacon).
18. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
19. Relating to or resulting from arbitration.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
23. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
24. An angry dispute.
26. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
28. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
30. A city in southeastern South Korea.
32. Avatar of Vishnu.
36. Surpassing what is common or usual or expected.
39. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
40. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
41. Beads threaded on a string.
43. A city in northern India.
44. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
46. Enthusiastic approval.
49. The end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes.
52. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
58. Remove from its packing.
64. German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716).
67. King of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839).
68. A rapid bustling commotion.
69. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
72. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
73. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
74. Specify individually.
76. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
77. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
78. An industrial city in the European part of Russia.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. The capital and largest city of Norway.
3. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
4. One who is playfully mischievous.
5. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
6. The mints.
7. A town in north central Oklahoma.
8. Provided with artificial light.
9. Any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen.
10. The act of setting in operation.
11. Big-eyed scad.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. A harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment.
22. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
25. (Akkadian) God ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead.
27. A state in New England.
29. Any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling.
31. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
33. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
34. Any admirable quality or attribute.
35. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
37. Type genus of the Phocidae.
38. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.
42. A branch of the Tai languages.
45. A former province of east central France.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. (criminal law) A pleading describing some wrong or offense.
50. European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.
51. Noisy talk.
54. The froth produced by soaps or detergents.
55. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
57. 1 species.
59. Any bird of the genus Pitta.
60. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
61. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
62. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
63. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
65. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
66. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
70. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
71. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
75. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
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