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1. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
4. Of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth.
12. Having leadership guidance.
15. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
16. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
17. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
18. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
19. Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil.
20. United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000).
22. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. (of skin) Having a tan color from exposure to the sun.
29. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
32. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
33. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
37. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
39. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
40. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
42. Any high mountain.
43. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
46. Term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes.
49. (British) A car that is even smaller than a subcompact car.
52. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
54. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
61. Surgical removal of a body part or tissue.
63. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
65. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
68. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
69. A member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste.
72. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
73. The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.
75. Using speech rather than writing.
76. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
77. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
78. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
2. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
5. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
6. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norethindrone.
7. Himalayish language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.
8. Used of a single unit or thing.
9. A hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish.
10. Being nine more than forty.
11. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
12. A large city of central Poland.
13. At or constituting a border or edge.
14. A notable achievement.
21. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
23. Supporting yourself on your knees.
26. A state in New England.
27. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
28. The act of escaping physically.
30. Used of decomposing oils or fats.
31. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
34. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
35. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
36. Earnest or urgent request.
38. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
41. Being one more than one.
44. Neuralgia along the sciatic nerve.
45. Antihypertensive drug (trade name Minipress).
47. Jordan's port.
48. Avatar of Vishnu.
50. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
51. God of fire.
55. A cyst on the underside of the tongue.
56. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
58. Partially melted snow v 1.
60. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
62. A lyric poet.
64. A quantity of no importance.
66. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
67. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
70. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
71. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
74. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
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