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1. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
9. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. Jordan's port.
15. Hit hard.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. Fallow deer.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
23. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
25. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
27. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
28. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
29. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
32. A light touch or stroke.
33. A state in New England.
35. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
37. Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786).
41. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
42. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
45. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
47. A town in north central Oklahoma.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
52. Tag the base runner to get him out.
54. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
58. Type genus of the Gavidae.
62. The cry made by sheep.
63. Of a pale purple color.
67. Slightly wet.
68. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
69. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
71. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
72. An informal term for a father.
73. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
74. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
3. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
4. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
5. A state in northwestern North America.
6. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
9. The compass point midway between south and west.
10. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
11. A large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees.
12. An iconic mental representation.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. 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. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
24. The brightest star in Cygnus.
26. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
30. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
31. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
34. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
36. A Russian river.
38. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
39. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
40. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
46. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
48. 10 grams.
51. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
53. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
55. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
56. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
57. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
59. Characteristic of false pride.
60. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
61. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
64. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
65. A toilet in England.
66. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
70. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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