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1. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
5. A collection of Psalms for liturgical use.
12. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
15. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
16. French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955).
17. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. Insanely irresponsible.
22. Large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids.
24. An ordered reference standard.
25. Lacking in liveliness or animation.
28. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
31. Alcoholic drink from fermented cider (`cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usage for the fermented beverage).
32. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
34. Pacific newts.
38. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.
41. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
42. The second larges of the four main islands of Japan.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. A small nail.
48. The cry made by sheep.
49. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. Chief port of Yemen.
54. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
57. A light touch or stroke.
59. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Majestic in manner or bearing.
68. Type genus of the Anatidae.
71. A telephone connection.
72. Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants.
73. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
74. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
75. On or toward the lee.
76. Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality.
77. Immediately past.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
3. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
4. A state in New England.
5. A city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau.
6. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
7. Showily imitative of art or artists.
8. Being one more than fifty.
9. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska.
10. Late time of life.
11. Engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making.
12. 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi.
13. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
14. Closed with a lace.
19. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
21. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
23. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A resident of Idaho.
29. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
30. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
33. Worn away as by water or ice or wind.
35. A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.
36. Located at or near the back of an animal.
37. By bad luck.
39. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
45. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
51. Chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth.
53. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
55. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
56. Lower in esteem.
58. A bright green fabric napped to resemble felt.
60. The brightly colored garments of a jockey.
61. Enthusiastic approval.
63. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
64. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
66. Showing your contempt by derision.
67. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
69. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
70. The force of workers available.
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