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1. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
4. Winner of a Nobel Prize.
12. An honorary degree in science.
15. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
16. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
17. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. (of Catholics formerly) Refusing to attend services of the Church of England.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
23. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
24. A salesman who travels to call on customers.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. In addition.
31. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
34. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
38. Informal terms for a mother.
41. Weaken mentally or morally.
45. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
46. Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America.
47. A unit of pressure.
48. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
51. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
52. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
54. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
56. A written message addressed to a person or organization.
58. A plant fiber used for making rope.
61. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
62. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
70. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
73. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
74. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
76. Chief port of Yemen.
77. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
78. Erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon-flushed flowers.
79. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
3. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
4. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
5. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
6. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
7. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
8. The act of losing.
9. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
10. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
11. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
12. A fraudulent business scheme.
13. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
14. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
22. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
25. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
27. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
29. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
30. A white secretion of the sebaceous glands of the foreskin.
32. In bed.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. Capital and largest city of Lebanon.
36. A liquid solution that results from elution.
37. Someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications.
39. A nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century.
40. Greek lyric poet of Lesbos.
42. British informal term.
43. An accountant certified by the state.
44. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
49. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
53. A genus of Bothidae.
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
57. Roman emperor and adoptive son of Nerva.
59. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
60. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
63. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
64. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
65. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
66. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. At any time.
69. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
71. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
72. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
75. A radioactive transuranic element.
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