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1. A slight amount or degree of difference.
4. Exercise that increases the need for oxygen.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
17. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
18. An informal term for a father.
20. Injured by bites or stings.
21. An amine containing the double bond linkage -C=C-N-.
23. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.
25. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
26. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
27. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
30. The female or generative principle.
33. One of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
35. Of people.
39. A protective covering that protects an inside surface.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. Type genus of the Anatidae.
45. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
47. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
50. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
52. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
56. The content of cognition.
57. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
60. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
61. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
63. The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques.
68. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
69. One thousand grams.
70. The fare charged for traveling by airplane.
71. Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948).
74. The cry made by sheep.
75. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
76. Unlicensed drinking establishment.
77. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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1. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
6. Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding.
7. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
8. A radioactive transuranic element.
9. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
10. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
11. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. British admiral.
13. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
14. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
19. Kauri pine.
22. Mated sexually.
24. A city of central China.
28. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
29. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
31. A compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals.
32. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
36. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
37. Lower in esteem.
38. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
40. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
42. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
46. A woman protege.
48. Hardy breed from Ayr Scotland.
49. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
51. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
53. A person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples.
54. A large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling.
55. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
58. Short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of south and southeast Asia.
59. Love intensely.
62. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
64. An event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
67. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
72. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
73. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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