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1. A man who serves as a sailor.
4. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
11. Informal terms for a mother.
15. The month following March and preceding May.
16. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
17. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
18. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
19. A group of trees and shrubs and herbs mostly with polypetalous flowers.
20. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
21. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
23. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
25. Not plain.
26. United States chemist (1839-1903).
28. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
30. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
32. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
36. A state in the western United States.
40. Relating to or located near a tibia.
42. Give equal rights to.
45. (British) Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms.
46. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. The amount a salary is increased.
51. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
53. An inhabitant of an island.
55. The superior of a group of nuns.
57. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
58. Type genus of the Otariidae.
61. A pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
63. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
65. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
69. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
73. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
74. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
76. Having much flesh (especially fat).
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
78. Any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having 3-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring.
79. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. Of short duration or distance.
4. A semiautomatic rifle.
5. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
6. Dirty and disorderly.
7. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
8. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
9. A lizard of the family Agamidae.
10. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
11. Submersible vessel for one or two persons.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
14. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
22. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
24. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. A city in central New York.
31. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
33. Any oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents.
34. The state that precedes vomiting.
35. United States painter born in Germany.
37. In bed.
38. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
39. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
43. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
44. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
48. Marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint.
50. Anneal or toughen by a process of gradually heating and cooling.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. Made of or resembling lace.
56. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
59. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
60. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
62. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
64. Make secure by lashing.
66. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
67. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
68. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
70. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
71. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. Being nine more than ninety.
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