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1. Not agitated.
5. Capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China.
12. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
15. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
16. All the weapons and equipment that a country has.
17. A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment.
18. (football) A ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball.
20. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
21. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
22. An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374).
24. Cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful.
26. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
29. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
32. A city of central Russia south of Moscow.
33. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
36. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
37. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
38. An electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged.
39. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
41. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
44. A state in midwestern United States.
45. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
47. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
51. Apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel).
52. Lower in esteem.
54. 1/10 gram.
55. Jordan's port.
57. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
60. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
61. French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944).
65. (physics) Of or pertaining to a meson.
69. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
70. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
72. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
73. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
74. Repeated too often.
76. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
77. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
78. Heavy and compact in form or stature.
79. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
2. A fit of shivering.
3. A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics).
4. African terrestrial ferns.
5. Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots.
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
8. Seed of a pea plant.
9. In or of the present month.
10. A period of time spent sleeping.
11. Glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief.
12. The act of accelerating.
13. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine.
14. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. An accountant certified by the state.
25. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
27. Battle in 401 BC when the Persian King Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne.
28. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. A short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play.
31. The Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola.
34. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
35. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
40. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. A white powder (LiCO3) used in manufacturing glass and ceramics and as a drug.
48. A fibrous amphibole.
49. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
50. One millionth of a gram.
53. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
56. Personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation.
58. A cry of sorrow and grief.
59. A woman who tells fortunes.
62. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
63. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
64. Wet with dew.
66. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
68. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
71. Rate of revolution of a motor.
75. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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