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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. An official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it.
12. A small piece of cloth.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A landslide of mud.
17. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
18. An oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels.
19. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.
20. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
21. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
22. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
25. A port in southwestern Scotland.
27. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
30. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
33. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
39. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
40. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. Not in good physical or mental health.
43. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
45. A master's degree in business.
48. A Bantu language.
50. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
52. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
53. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
57. A just detectable amount.
59. Easily irritated or annoyed.
61. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
63. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
67. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
68. An organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism.
71. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
72. Dry red Italian table wine from the Chianti region of Tuscany.
73. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
74. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
75. A support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute).
76. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Common Indian weaverbird.
4. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
5. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
6. A state in north central United States.
7. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
8. Resembling or containing slate.
9. A vast Asian region of Russia.
10. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
11. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. A means of serving.
14. Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers.
23. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
24. Very dark black.
26. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
28. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
29. A city in northeastern France in Lorraine.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
35. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
36. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
37. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
38. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
44. The range within which a voice can be heard.
46. Any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers.
47. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan.
49. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
51. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
54. A genus of Caltha.
55. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
56. Of or relating to cats.
58. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
60. A natural protective covering of the body.
62. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
64. Toward the mouth or oral region.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
69. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
70. How long something has existed.
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