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1. The act of catching an object with the hands.
5. A situation in which no progress can be made.
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
16. A microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. A slender double-reed instrument.
19. Selected as the best.
20. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
22. A fence-like structure around a deck.
24. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. A narrow pass (especially one between mountains).
28. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
33. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
36. A doctor's degree in education.
39. (Babylonian and Assyrian) Goddess of love and fertility and war.
40. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
42. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
45. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
46. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
49. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
50. Showily imitative of art or artists.
51. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
52. A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States.
54. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
55. Offering fun and gaiety.
57. The honeycreepers.
60. (law) A courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge in a trial that is held out of the jury's hearing.
63. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
64. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
65. The sixth month of the civil year.
66. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
71. Being nothing more than specified.
72. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
74. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
77. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
78. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
79. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
80. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
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1. A coarse obnoxious person.
2. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
3. (archaic) Of persons.
4. Disparaging terms for small people.
5. Old World herbs and subshrubs.
6. Having no milk.
7. Marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action.
8. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
9. Large scissors with strong blades.
10. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
11. Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.
12. A decree that prohibits something.
13. In bed.
14. An informal term for a father.
21. A inexpensive showy collectibles.
23. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
25. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
29. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints).
31. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
34. White sauce with whipping cream and shrimp butter.
35. A protective structure of stone or concrete.
37. A couple who both have careers and no children.
38. Covered with paving material.
41. A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments.
43. An accidental happening.
44. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
48. 1 species.
53. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
56. A large fleet.
58. Convert into ions.
59. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
61. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
62. A game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard.
67. Type genus of the Apidae.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
70. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
73. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
75. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
76. A New England state.
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