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1. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. Lovable especially in a childlike or naive way.
12. Inquire about.
15. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
16. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Place in a grave or tomb.
20. A token that postal fees have been paid.
21. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
22. A battle in the Thirty Years' War (1643).
23. The fatty flesh of eel.
24. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
26. A town in central Belgium.
29. French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air.
36. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
37. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
38. Small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods.
39. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
41. Partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water.
43. A branch of the Tai languages.
44. Remove from memory or existence.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. The bud of a rose.
50. 10 grams.
53. A Loloish language.
55. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
61. Situated between the earth and the moon.
65. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
68. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
69. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
72. Black tropical American cuckoo.
73. Woolly aphids.
75. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
76. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
77. The last few hours before death.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
2. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
3. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
5. Fraught with uncertainty or doubt.
6. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
7. Settle in a new place.
8. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
11. Enter into a list of prospective jurors.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. Knock unconscious or senseless.
19. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
25. Type genus of the Laridae.
27. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
28. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
30. A tax on various goods brought into a town.
31. Goddess of dawn.
32. The month following September and preceding November.
33. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
34. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
35. The capital of Bahrain.
40. The month following January and preceding March.
42. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
45. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
46. Jordan's port.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
52. A drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes.
54. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds.
56. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
57. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
58. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
60. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
62. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
63. Employed in accomplishing something.
64. An indistinct shapeless form.
66. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. The residue that remains when something is burned.
71. A slight amount or degree of difference.
74. A state in New England.
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