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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. Being the exact same one.
12. A period of time spent sleeping.
15. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
16. An extinct ancient language of unknown affinities.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. A soft whitish calcite.
20. A professional person authorized to practice law.
22. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
24. Being one more than fifty.
25. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object.
29. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
32. A city in southeastern South Korea.
35. The 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
36. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
37. A speaker who lisps.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. (informal) Roused to anger.
42. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
44. A member of a North American Indian people of the Gila river valley in Arizona.
48. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
50. Type genus of the Anatidae.
52. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
54. God of wealth and love.
57. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
58. Any plant of the genus Erica.
59. Russian country house.
61. A crime syndicate in the United States.
64. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
68. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
72. Being precisely fitting and right.
73. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
75. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
76. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
77. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
78. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
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1. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
2. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
3. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
4. A lion-headed goddess.
5. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
6. A genus of Lamnidae.
7. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
8. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
9. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
10. An engineering university in Cambridge.
11. Characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment.
12. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
13. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
14. The British system of withholding tax.
19. Goddess of fortune.
21. (of Catholics formerly) Refusing to attend services of the Church of England.
23. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
28. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
30. Sudanese sorghums having white seeds.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
33. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
34. Positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger.
38. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
41. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
43. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
45. Having low density.
46. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
47. The residue that remains when something is burned.
51. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
53. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
55. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
56. Any of various rich and elaborate cakes.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. In bed.
63. A master's degree in library science.
65. Little known Kamarupan languages.
66. A Loloish language.
67. An artificial source of visible illumination.
69. A city in the European part of Russia.
70. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
71. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
74. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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