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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
5. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
12. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
15. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
16. Worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning.
17. A Nilotic language.
18. Specify individually.
20. Being one more than eighteen.
22. A town in southwestern Idaho.
23. Absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters).
24. English essayist (1775-1834).
25. An awkward stupid person.
27. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
28. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
32. Curving outward.
38. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
41. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
42. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
43. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
44. A region in central France.
47. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
49. A unit that is part of some military service.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. God of fire.
55. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
56. East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder.
58. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
60. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
63. Someone who attacks in search of booty.
68. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period.
70. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
71. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
72. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
75. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
76. An Asian river between China and Russia.
77. Tropical African herbs.
78. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light.
2. Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored.
3. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
4. A race between candidates for elective office.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
9. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
10. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
11. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
12. An appearance of reflected light.
13. A prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor.
14. A range horse of the western United States.
19. A state in midwestern United States.
21. The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.
26. A city in east central Texas.
29. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
30. Haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter.
31. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
33. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
34. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
35. Informal terms for the mouth.
36. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
37. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
39. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist.
40. A waiter at a drive-in restaurant.
45. A feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
48. German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945).
50. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
53. Of or relating to the songbirds n.
54. An informal term for a father.
57. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
59. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
61. Affectedly dainty or refined.
62. A very light brown.
64. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
65. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
66. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
67. Type genus of the Ranidae.
69. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
73. Being one more than one.
74. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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