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1. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
5. A French abbot.
9. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
13. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
14. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
15. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
16. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
18. A motley assortment of things.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A person forced to flee from home or country.
22. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
24. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
25. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
26. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
38. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. Squash bugs.
45. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
46. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
47. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
48. A light touch or stroke.
50. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
51. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
54. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
56. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
59. An associate degree in applied science.
61. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
65. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
67. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
73. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
74. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
75. A port city in southwestern Iran.
76. An audiotape recording of sound.
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1. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
2. With rapid movements.
3. An enclosed space.
4. Spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun.
5. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
8. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
9. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
10. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
11. Gather, as of as crops.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
23. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
32. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
33. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
34. On or toward the lee.
36. Black tropical American cuckoo.
37. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
39. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
40. Singing jazz.
43. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
44. (informal) Of the highest quality.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. A genus of Ploceidae.
55. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
57. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
58. God of death.
59. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
60. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
62. In bed.
63. A Loloish language.
64. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
68. A decree that prohibits something.
71. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
72. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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