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1. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
5. An oral drug (trade name Mevacor) to reduce blood cholesterol levels.
12. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
15. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
16. Of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
20. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
21. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
22. Sterile offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass.
23. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
25. Reason by deduction.
27. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
29. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
37. Weapon consisting of a fighting ax.
41. Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct liquids or gases.
42. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
43. A swift whirling motion (usually of a missile).
44. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
46. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. Of or relating to a caesura.
51. The capital and largest city situated centrally in Spain.
53. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
54. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
59. United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941).
60. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
62. Type genus of the Gavidae.
66. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
72. A minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages.
74. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
75. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
76. A great raja.
77. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
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1. Make an etching of.
2. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
3. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
4. The honeycreepers.
5. A master's degree in business.
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
10. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
11. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. (Middle East) Usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling.
13. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
14. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
19. Tropical Asian starlings.
24. Apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel).
26. Someone who makes frames (as for pictures).
28. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
30. Old World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw.
31. Spread or diffuse through.
34. Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature).
35. Of or relating to located near the iris of the eye.
36. A nation in northern North America.
38. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
39. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
40. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
45. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
47. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
50. An ordered reference standard.
52. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
55. A genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family.
56. Obvious and dull.
57. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
58. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
61. Located at or near the back of an animal.
63. Characteristic of false pride.
64. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
65. Beside one another in a row or rank.
67. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
68. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
69. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
73. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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