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ACROSS
1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. A professional cook.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding fivepetaled flowers.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. Mostly tropical songbird.
21. Singing jazz.
23. Of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language.
24. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
25. The wood of an African obeche tree.
28. Talk pompously.
31. Divisible by two.
35. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
37. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
38. Chief port of Yemen.
40. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
42. A public toilet in a military area.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. A trivial lie.
48. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. 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.
55. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
57. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
60. An official or legal cancellation.
62. Characteristic of or relating to winter.
63. A dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland.
67. A city in northwestern Syria.
68. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
72. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
73. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
77. In the Roman calendar.
78. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
79. A periodic paperback publication.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
5. Common black European thrush.
6. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
7. Provide with clothes or put clothes on.
8. Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background.
9. A sign of something about to happen.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year.
12. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
13. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
14. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
20. A decree that prohibits something.
22. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
26. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
27. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
29. The brightest star in Orion.
30. Jordan's port.
32. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
33. A mountain in south central Alaska.
34. A deficiency of red blood cells.
36. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
39. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
41. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
43. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
45. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
47. Something causes misery or death.
51. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
52. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
53. The vast grassy plains of northern Argentina.
54. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
56. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
58. Treated with oil.
59. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
61. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
64. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
65. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
66. An unforeseen obstacle.
69. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
70. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
71. A castrated tomcat.
75. Before noon.