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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. Owned up to.
12. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
16. Resistant to oils and aging.
17. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. A family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States.
20. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
22. An inland sea in northwestern Turkey.
25. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
26. A steep high face of rock.
28. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
29. A movie with synchronized speech and singing.
32. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
33. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
45. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
47. Informal terms for a mother.
48. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
49. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
50. Considerate and solicitous care.
51. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
56. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
58. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
60. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
67. Complacently or inanely foolish.
68. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
71. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
72. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. How long something has existed.
76. Two items of the same kind.
77. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
78. (informal) Roused to anger.
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1. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. A human female who does housework.
4. Acting to neutralize acid (especially in the stomach) n.
5. A special loved one.
6. An atom having a valence of one.
7. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
8. A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation.
9. Being one more than nine.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
12. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
13. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
14. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
21. A characteristic state or mode of living.
23. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
31. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
34. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
36. (informal) Someone whose style is out of fashion.
37. German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831).
38. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana.
39. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
41. Ground snakes.
42. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
43. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
44. God of wisdom or prophesy.
46. English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766).
52. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
54. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
55. A large fleet.
57. Jordan's port.
59. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
61. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
62. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
63. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
64. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
65. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
66. In bed.
69. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
70. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
73. An informal term for a father.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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