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1. Type genus of the Sulidae.
5. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
12. The seventh and last day of the week.
15. The act of catching an object with the hands.
16. Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. One of three artisans of the gods.
19. Not still wet.
20. Tag the base runner to get him out.
21. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
28. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
33. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
34. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
42. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. Primitive evergreen mosslike plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. Excluded from use or mention.
49. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
53. Before noon.
54. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
56. Make an etching of.
57. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
59. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
61. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
63. Relating to or having the nature of illation or inference.
68. The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
70. A negative.
71. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
72. Guiding star.
74. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
75. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
76. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
77. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
2. A powerful operating system developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
3. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
4. Loss of the ability to swallow.
5. The seventh month of the civil year.
6. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
7. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
8. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote.
9. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
10. Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. The form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation.
26. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
27. An informal term for a father.
29. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Lacking social polish.
32. A large fleet.
35. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
36. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
37. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
38. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
39. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
41. Give a nickname to.
43. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
45. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,546 feet high).
46. In a morbid manner or to a morbid degree.
50. (usually followed by `for') Extremely desirous.
51. The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.
52. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
55. A scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco).
58. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
60. A small unit serving as the nucleus of a larger political movement.
62. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
64. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
65. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
66. Characteristic of false pride.
67. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
69. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
73. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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