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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
5. Expected hopefully.
12. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
15. By bad luck.
16. Moths whose larvae are tobacco hornworms or tomato hornworms.
17. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
18. A characteristic sound.
19. Of or relating to or involving an area.
20. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
22. A tributary of the Ohio River in West Virginia.
24. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
26. Earlier a god.
27. A resort city in western Florida.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
32. A substance that abrades or wears down.
34. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
36. A Loloish language.
38. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
41. A long brightly colored shawl.
45. Being one more than fifty.
46. An expression of greeting.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
57. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
61. A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries.
64. The act of scanning.
66. Administer an oil or ointment to.
67. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
70. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
71. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
72. Having a margin with rounded scallops.
74. One-hundredth of a right angle.
75. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
76. Of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia.
77. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
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1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
3. Having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids).
4. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
5. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
6. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
7. Used of a single unit or thing.
8. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
9. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
10. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
11. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
12. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
13. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
14. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
21. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
23. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. A form of address for a man.
33. A French abbot.
35. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. A metal frame or container holding cartridges.
40. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
42. A port city in southwestern Iran.
43. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
44. Slightly open.
48. An associate degree in nursing.
49. English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859).
50. Creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil.
54. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
55. Using speech rather than writing.
56. The number of lines in a piece of printed material.
58. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
59. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
60. Used by northerners of Confederate soldiers.
62. British composer (1857-1934).
63. Full of seeds.
65. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
68. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
69. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
73. Half the width of an em.
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