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1. A humorous anecdote or remark.
4. Segmented worms.
12. A castrated tomcat.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Of or relating to a doctor or doctorate.
17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
18. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
20. Robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. City in central Iran.
24. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
26. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
29. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
32. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
33. Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal.
37. The state of existing and being localized in space.
39. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
40. A rapid bustling commotion.
41. Any of a group of enzymes (trade name Lactaid) that hydrolyze lactose to glucose and galactose.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
46. A genus of bee.
48. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
49. A genus of Ploceidae.
51. The range within which a voice can be heard.
53. An associate degree in nursing.
56. Half the width of an em.
57. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
59. Being ten more than eighty.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
70. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
73. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
76. Black tropical American cuckoo.
77. (informal) Of the highest quality.
78. Waves breaking on the shore.
79. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
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1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
2. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
3. Look with amazement.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. The period of time that is happening now.
6. A state in southeastern United States.
7. A colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs.
8. A toilet in England.
9. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
10. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
11. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
12. A desert in central Asia.
13. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A device that very useful for a particular job.
23. Tag the base runner to get him out.
25. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
27. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
28. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language.
30. A port city in southwestern Iran.
31. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
34. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
35. A proposal for an appropriate course of action.
36. Of questionable taste or morality.
38. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
42. A town in north central Oklahoma.
44. A mountain range in China.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. Bar temporarily.
52. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
54. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
55. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
58. Lower in esteem.
60. A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river).
61. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
62. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
64. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
65. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
66. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
68. A Russian river.
69. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
71. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
72. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
74. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
75. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
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