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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. Conduct business.
12. Inquire about.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Someone who listens attentively.
17. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. A throne that is the official chair of a bishop.
20. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
24. A chronic drinker.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
29. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
30. A dilute solution of acetic acid that is used as a solvent (e.g. for a drug).
34. A person of unquestioning obedience.
37. Pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves).
39. The capital of Western Samoa.
41. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
42. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
45. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
46. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
48. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
50. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
51. Of or relating to the dura mater.
53. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
55. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
61. The sacred writings of the Christian religion.
62. A diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine.
65. A short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
73. The cry made by sheep.
74. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
75. A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey.
76. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
77. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
78. Any collection in its entirety.
79. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. Considerate and solicitous care.
5. The basic unit of money in Iran.
6. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
7. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
8. A small hard fruit.
9. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
10. A soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal.
11. A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation.
12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
13. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
14. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
22. Moderate or restrain.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. Small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers.
31. Woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and North Australia.
32. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
33. God of death.
35. Someone who operates an aircraft.
36. A nation in northern North America.
38. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
40. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
43. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
49. Robber flies.
52. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
54. Advanced in years.
56. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
57. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
58. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
59. A light informal meal.
60. Of a pale purple color.
63. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
64. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
66. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
67. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
68. A quantity that is added.
71. A toilet in England.
72. An honorary law degree.
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