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1. South African term for `boss'.
5. (informal) Someone who is a detective.
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
15. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
16. Large toothed frog of South and Central America resembling the bullfrog.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
20. The highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music.
21. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
22. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
23. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
25. 36th President of the United States.
27. A medium for oil-paints.
29. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard.
32. (of champagne) Extremely dry.
33. The handle of a weapon or tool.
37. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
40. A bitter quarrel between two parties.
43. Given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol.
45. Chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
50. A state of readiness to respond.
51. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
53. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
55. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
59. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
64. The act of scanning.
70. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
73. Gone by.
74. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
75. A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes.
76. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
77. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
78. A monster able to change appearance from human to wolf.
79. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
4. Sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains.
5. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
6. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
7. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
8. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
9. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
10. Any cohesive unit such as a military company.
11. The capital and largest city of Japan.
12. The closing section of a musical composition.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. A British doctorate.
26. A son who has the same first name as his father.
28. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
30. Of or relating to or involving an area.
31. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
34. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
35. A soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light.
36. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
38. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
39. A city in northwestern Turkey.
41. A native of ancient Troy.
42. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. A New England state.
47. A milkshake with egg in it.
52. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
58. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
61. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
62. German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831).
63. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
65. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
66. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
67. Someone who practices homosexuality.
68. Using speech rather than writing.
69. A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva.
71. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
72. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
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