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1. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
5. A specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
15. Any competition.
16. (Greek mythology) The priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse.
17. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
18. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
20. An ability that has been acquired by training.
22. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
23. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
25. A native of ancient Troy.
27. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
32. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
36. Informal terms for a mother.
38. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
41. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
43. Winter aconite.
45. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
46. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
49. Avatar of Vishnu.
50. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
52. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
54. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
58. A quantity of no importance.
60. Without doubt or question.
64. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. Hand tool for boring holes.
72. Being two more than fifty.
73. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables.
75. Having much flesh (especially fat).
76. Water frozen in the solid state.
77. Mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant.
78. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated.
2. The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos.
3. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
4. Seed of a pea plant.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. An oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue.
7. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
8. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
9. A pass between mountain peaks.
10. The act of grasping.
11. Half the width of an em.
12. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
13. God of death.
14. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
19. A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Alabama.
21. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
24. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
29. Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
34. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
35. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
37. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
40. God of wealth and love.
42. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
44. A drug (trade name Trental) used to treat claudication.
47. The point in time at which something must be completed.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A Russian river.
53. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
55. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
56. Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person.
57. The cry made by sheep.
59. Similar to the color of fresh grass.
61. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
62. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
63. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
65. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
66. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
67. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
70. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
71. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
74. A white trivalent metallic element.
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