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1. An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.
4. A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder.
12. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
15. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
16. A woman aviator.
17. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
18. Above the surround or above the normal position.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
21. Related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain.
23. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
25. Russian choreographer (1834-1905).
26. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
27. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
29. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
30. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
31. (law) Lacking any legal or binding force.
32. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
35. Make less active or intense.
42. An awkward stupid person.
44. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
46. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
47. (statistics) Of a distribution.
51. A nitrogen-containing base found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine.
52. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
53. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
56. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
57. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
58. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
60. United States anthropologist (born in England) who popularized anthropology (1905- ).
63. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
69. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
70. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
73. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
77. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
78. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
79. By bad luck.
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1. Left-hand page.
2. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
3. The amount of money needed to purchase something.
5. A resource.
6. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
7. A member of the Wakashan people living on Queen Charlotte Sound and northern Vancouver Island.
8. (of a substance) Capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water).
9. Before noon.
10. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
11. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
12. Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout.
13. A fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon.
14. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. Secured or held in place by tape.
24. A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail.
28. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
33. A French river.
34. Wood of a sumac.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. Big-eyed scad.
38. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
39. (prefix) Between or among or in the midst of.
40. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
41. Being one more than two.
43. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
45. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
48. One species.
49. An early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica.
50. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
54. Any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas.
55. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
59. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
61. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
62. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
64. Using speech rather than writing.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. The food served and eaten at one time.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
68. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
71. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
72. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
75. Half the width of an em.
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