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1. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
4. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
12. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
15. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
16. Unsegmented worms.
17. Black tropical American cuckoo.
18. American inventor.
20. A tranquilizing drug (trade name Serax) used to treat anxiety and insomnia and alcohol withdrawal.
21. (psychophysics) The difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected.
22. Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters.
24. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
26. A term used in Scottish names of promontories.
28. Poor handwriting.
33. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
38. Supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book.
40. A ray of sunlight.
41. A strong emotion.
42. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
44. How long something has existed.
45. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
47. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
50. Metal shackles.
52. God of the Underworld.
54. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
57. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
63. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element.
65. Enclosed in a package or protective covering.
68. An investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods.
70. A loose cloak with a hood.
71. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
72. A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes.
75. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
76. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
77. (Spanish) Sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. Make editorial changes (in a text).
4. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
5. Make numb or insensitive.
6. The square of a body of any size of type.
7. Speak in a nasal voice.
8. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
9. The Judeo-Christian God.
10. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
11. A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. Declare invalid.
14. Move unobtrusively or furtively.
19. A river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico.
23. A kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium.
25. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
27. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
29. The dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted.
30. A decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game).
31. Something causes misery or death.
32. Worthless people.
34. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
35. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
36. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
37. A stock exchange in New York.
39. A Bantu language closely related to Zulu.
43. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
46. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
48. Before noon.
49. Bringing death.
51. Deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America.
53. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
55. United States actor (born in Hungary) noted for playing sinister roles (1904-1964).
56. Lower in esteem.
58. A person forced to flee from home or country.
60. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
64. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
66. Slightly open.
67. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
69. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
73. Half the width of an em.
74. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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