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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to to it.
12. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
15. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
16. The act of reaching out.
17. A column of light (as from a beacon).
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.
20. A board with the alphabet on it.
22. By bad luck.
24. Showily imitative of art or artists.
25. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
26. Of or in or relating to the nose.
29. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
32. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known a Iraq.
33. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
40. A person with great powers and abilities.
43. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
44. Shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg.
47. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
48. A decree that prohibits something.
49. Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence.
51. Remote and separate physically or socially.
54. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
55. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
57. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
59. Supported and operated by the government of a state.
63. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
67. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
69. A port city in southwestern Iran.
71. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
72. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
75. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
76. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
77. (Greek mythology) A youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her.
78. An informal term for a father.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
4. A male human offspring.
5. Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.
6. (Sumerian) Sun god.
7. Tick lacking a dorsal shield and having mouth parts on the under side of the head.
8. The capital and largest city of Iran.
9. Disclosing information or giving evidence about another.
10. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
11. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. (Greek mythology) The last king of Troy.
13. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
14. City in Sudan.
21. A resident of Utah.
23. Spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
28. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
30. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
31. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral).
34. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
35. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
37. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians.
38. The basic unit of money in Sweden.
39. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
41. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
42. The basic unit of money in Macao.
45. An advantageous purchase.
46. Jet engine in which a turbine drives air to the burner.
50. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
52. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
53. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
58. Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
60. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
61. A French abbot.
62. Make reference to.
64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
65. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
66. A town in north central Oklahoma.
68. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
70. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
73. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
74. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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