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1. The force of workers available.
4. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
11. God of love and erotic desire.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
16. Occurring at the beginning.
17. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
18. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
20. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
21. A cylindrical tower used for storing silage.
22. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. Oblong cream puff.
27. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
32. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
36. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
39. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
40. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
41. (Irish) The sea personified.
42. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
44. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
46. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
48. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
51. A salt or ester of oxalic acid.
53. Having a play of lustrous rainbow-like colors.
54. An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money.
57. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
58. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. A genus of fish in the family Caproidae.
62. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
65. Of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living.
69. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
70. Characteristic of a lack of maturity.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
75. (Babylonian) Consort of Marduk.
76. A three-year law degree.
77. God of the underworld.
78. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
79. The month following July and preceding September.
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1. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters.
2. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
3. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
4. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
5. An associate degree in nursing.
6. Injured by bites or stings.
7. Of or relating to near the ear.
8. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
9. The cry made by sheep.
10. Declared but not proved.
11. The third month of the civil year.
12. Type genus of the Amiidae.
13. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
14. (Roman mythology) God of love.
19. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
23. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
26. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. The capital of Nationalist China.
30. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
33. A tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects.
34. A zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere between Taurus and Cancer on the ecliptic.
35. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
37. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.
38. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
43. South African term for `boss'.
45. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
47. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
49. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
50. Smaller than Florida pompano.
52. A B vitamin that prevents beriberi.
55. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
56. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
59. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
61. Dried plum v 1.
63. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
64. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
66. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
67. An Eskimo hut.
68. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
71. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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