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1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
4. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
15. The month following March and preceding May.
16. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
17. An enclosed space.
18. A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate.
20. A disdainful pouting grimace.
21. Lower in esteem.
23. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
25. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
26. A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.
29. A loose cloak with a hood.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Male red deer.
39. A woman of refinement.
44. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
45. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
48. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
50. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
52. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
54. Wood of a sumac.
56. (British) Your grandmother.
57. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
58. Isolated from others.
60. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
63. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
67. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
70. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
73. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
74. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
75. Dragonflies and damselflies.
76. An associate degree in applied science.
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1. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. A large fleet.
7. The 3rd planet from the sun.
8. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
9. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit.
12. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
13. A Bantu language.
14. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
19. Pouch used in the shipment of mail.
24. 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.
27. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
28. Tag the base runner to get him out.
30. An implement used to erase something.
31. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. Large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area.
37. Squash bugs.
38. Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200).
40. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
41. A large and imposing house.
42. Being nine more than ninety.
43. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
49. Dead and rotting flesh.
51. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
53. The agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered.
55. Large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes.
59. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
61. In a competent capable manner.
62. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
64. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
65. A wine bottle made of leather.
66. Type genus of the Anatidae.
68. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
72. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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