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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Provide commentary for a film, for example.
11. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
15. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
16. Of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture.
17. By bad luck.
18. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
19. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
20. Grind together, of teeth.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Late time of life.
25. A low heavy horsecart without sides.
28. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
30. A Swiss house.
36. Attractiveness to the opposite sex.
39. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
40. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
43. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
44. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
48. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
50. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
51. An inflow.
53. Turn away from sin or do penitence.
55. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
57. A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle.
61. An honorary degree in science.
66. Wearing footgear.
67. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
69. Any loose flowing garment.
70. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
71. Of or relating to the enteron.
73. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
74. A strong emotion.
75. Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.
76. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known a Iraq.
5. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
6. A feeling of intense anger.
7. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
8. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
9. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. A bar of sand.
12. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
14. Pale gray.
22. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
24. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
26. Preserve of crushed fruit.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. (informal) Very bad.
31. Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC).
32. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
33. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
34. Found along western Atlantic coast.
35. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
37. An informal term for a father.
38. The quantity that a bag will hold.
41. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
42. Type genus of the Amiidae.
45. (biology) Rough to the touch.
46. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
47. The fruit of a variety of winter melon vine.
49. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
52. The compass point that is one point west of northwest.
54. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
58. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
62. A human female who does housework.
63. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
64. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
65. Belonging to some prior time.
68. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
72. A state in New England.
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