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1. A castrated tomcat.
4. Small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head.
12. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
16. English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882).
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder.
20. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
21. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
22. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
24. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
26. A doctor's degree in optometry.
29. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
30. True mosses.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. A thrusting blow with a knife.
39. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
44. The mother of Jesus.
47. Any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. Inquire about.
50. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
51. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
52. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
56. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
60. Sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).
64. Having your services engaged for.
68. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
69. A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa.
71. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
72. (informal) Exceptionally good.
73. Open to change.
74. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
75. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
76. An implement used to erase something.
77. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
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1. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
2. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
3. Greenish-yellow pear.
4. The part of the face above the eyes.
5. A toilet in England.
6. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
7. A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea.
8. To this writing or document.
9. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
10. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
11. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
13. Speaking a Slavic language.
14. Avatar of Vishnu.
19. Extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit.
23. Very light colored.
25. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
27. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
28. A port city in southwestern Iran.
31. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
32. Any taillike structure.
33. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
35. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
37. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
40. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
41. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
42. The highest level or degree attainable.
43. Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds.
45. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. A state in northwestern North America.
53. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
54. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
55. Come or be in close contact with.
57. A smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure.
58. An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.
59. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
61. A person of subnormal intelligence.
62. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
63. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
65. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
66. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
67. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
70. God of the underworld.
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