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1. An account describing incidents or events.
5. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
11. A city in northern India.
15. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
16. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture.
17. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text.
20. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
25. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. Very spicy sauce made from tabasco peppers.
28. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
30. Deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas.
34. (informal) Of the highest quality.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. Lower in esteem.
43. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
44. United States chemist (1839-1903).
48. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
49. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
50. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
51. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
52. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
53. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
56. Exhibiting self-importance.
58. 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. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
61. Grow by addition, as of capital.
62. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
65. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
68. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
69. Being the only one.
74. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
75. Having to do with a consul or his office or duties.
76. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. (Irish) The sea personified.
78. The animal order including amoebas.
79. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. Vibrate, as of a swing before it comes to a total rest.
4. Oil palms.
5. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
6. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
7. An ancient Greek city famous for military prowess.
8. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
9. An obsolete kind of container used for distillation.
10. Provided with artificial light.
11. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
12. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
13. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
14. Similar or related in quality or character.
22. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
24. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
31. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes.
32. The capital of Lesotho.
33. Any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols.
35. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
37. A bottle with a stopper.
39. Female peafowl.
40. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
42. A hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. Plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds.
47. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft.
54. A container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual).
55. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
57. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
60. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
63. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
64. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
67. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
70. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
71. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
72. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
73. The last (12th) month of the year.
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