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1. A slight amount or degree of difference.
4. Woolly aphids.
12. One millionth of a gram.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Hard dry sharp-flavored Italian cheese.
17. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
18. Ostentatiously lofty in style.
19. Any plant of the genus Erica.
20. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
21. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
24. Omnivorous mammal of Central and South America.
27. The median plane of the body (or some part of the body).
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. A compact mass.
32. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
33. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
35. Flat tableland with steep edges.
37. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens.
40. A residential district located on the outskirts of a city.
41. A state in midwestern United States.
43. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
44. (Roman mythology) God of love.
45. A device that controls amount of light admitted.
49. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
50. The force of workers available.
51. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
52. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
56. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
57. English writer of stories for children (1882-1956).
58. A member of the Algonquian people formerly living the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic.
63. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
65. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
68. Of or related to aplite.
70. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
71. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
72. Robber flies.
75. Being one more than two.
76. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
77. Resembling a leaf.
78. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
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1. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
2. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
5. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
6. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
7. A sign of something about to happen.
8. Watery fluid of the blood that resembles plasma but contains fibrinogen.
9. God of the underworld and judge of the dead.
10. Covered with paving material.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. A colorless odorless gas used as a fuel.
13. Free from dirt or impurities.
14. A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area.
22. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
23. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
25. Come to pass.
26. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
28. An early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur.
30. Foam or froth on the sea.
34. Very dark black.
36. Someone who operates an aircraft.
38. A period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful.
39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
42. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
46. An ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
48. A town in north central Oklahoma.
53. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression.
54. Little known Kamarupan languages.
55. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
59. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
60. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
61. Come into existence.
62. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
64. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
66. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
67. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
69. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
73. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
74. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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