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1. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. An implement used to erase something.
10. A police officer who investigates crimes.
13. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
14. Cause to be confused emotionally.
15. The residue that remains when something is burned.
16. The fatty flesh of eel.
17. Accumulated until needed.
18. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
19. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
21. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
22. An athlete who plays basketball.
24. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
26. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. Of a pale purple color.
30. An informal term for a father.
31. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
39. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A radioactive transuranic element.
44. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
45. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
48. 1 species.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
53. Being the only one.
54. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
62. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
63. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
66. South African term for `boss'.
68. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
69. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
71. The last (12th) month of the year.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
74. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
2. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
3. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
4. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
5. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
6. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
7. On the surface.
8. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
9. (British) A member of the military police.
10. A city in southeastern South Korea.
11. Formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water.
12. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
20. Offering fun and gaiety.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
28. The cry made by sheep.
32. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
34. A bachelor's degree in library science.
36. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
37. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
38. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
41. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. United States artist who was a leader of the pop art movement (1930-1987).
49. Divulge information or secrets.
51. Genus of African timber trees.
52. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
55. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. A small cake leavened with yeast.
60. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
61. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
64. A small piece of cloth.
65. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
67. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
70. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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