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1. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
4. The Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
16. An animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets.
17. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
18. Any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers.
20. Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh.
21. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
22. Not still wet.
24. Make harsh or harsher.
26. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
29. Of or relating to the island republic of Nauru or its residents.
32. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
33. A member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California.
34. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
35. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
36. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
40. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
42. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
45. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
47. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
49. Small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. A fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit.
55. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
57. Genus of North American and east Asian perennial herbs.
58. German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859).
62. (sports) With hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level.
63. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems.
68. Informal terms for clothing.
69. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
71. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
72. By bad luck.
73. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
75. (Irish) The sea personified.
76. A three-tone Chadic language.
77. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
78. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
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1. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
2. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
3. A light-weight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun.
4. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
7. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
8. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
9. Cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and showy flowers.
10. Adorned by inlays.
11. English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766).
12. A genus of Indriidae.
13. Having the head uncovered.
14. United States writer (1871-1900).
19. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.
23. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
25. A large number or amount.
27. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
28. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
30. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
31. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
37. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
38. An island republic on Nauru Island.
39. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
41. Rapid and indistinct speech.
43. Offering fun and gaiety.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. Equipment and supplies of a military force.
48. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
53. Obvious and dull.
54. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
56. A large fleet.
59. Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color.
60. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
61. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
66. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
67. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
70. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
74. Before noon.
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