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1. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
4. Written matter preceding the main text of a book.
11. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. A skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance.
17. A city in northwestern Syria.
18. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
19. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
20. A man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat.
21. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
22. Italian omelet with diced vegetables and meats.
25. Extremely evil or cruel.
27. Give qualities or abilities to.
29. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
31. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
34. A poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare.
39. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
40. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
42. A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. All the plant life in a particular region.
48. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
50. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
52. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
53. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
55. The act of escaping physically.
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
63. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
67. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
72. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
75. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
76. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
77. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
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1. A socially awkward or tactless act.
2. Fruit of the oak tree.
3. Moderately warm.
4. Taking on different forms.
5. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
6. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
7. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
8. Water frozen in the solid state.
9. Any expected deliverer.
10. 100 satangs equal 1 baht.
11. The upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities.
12. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
13. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
24. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
26. A government tax on imports or exports.
28. Surround so as to force to give up.
30. English monk and scholar (672-735).
32. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
33. A colorless odorless gas used as fuel.
35. Show a response or a reaction to something.
36. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
37. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
38. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. One of the three Furies.
45. Having deserted a cause or principle.
46. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
51. A used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads.
54. A port city in southwestern Iran.
56. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
58. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
61. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
62. Any competition.
64. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
65. In bed.
66. Avatar of Vishnu.
68. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
69. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
73. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
74. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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