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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels).
12. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
15. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
16. A fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
19. Narrow and long and pointed.
20. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
21. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. Unable to meet financial obligations.
26. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
33. A ridge of sand created by the wind.
37. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
38. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
43. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. The speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it is flying.
46. A Mid-Atlantic state.
48. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
52. A fraudulent business scheme.
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
58. Noisy talk.
59. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
62. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
66. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
72. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
73. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
75. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
76. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
77. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
78. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
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1. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
2. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
3. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
4. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
5. In a racy manner.
6. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
7. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
9. A deep bow.
10. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
11. (Irish) The sea personified.
12. The largest of the Balearic Islands.
13. A thin strip (wood or metal).
14. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
22. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
24. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
27. Being of delicate or slender build.
29. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
31. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
32. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
34. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Lupus and Ara in the Milky Way.
35. A prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor.
36. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
39. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
40. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
41. The probability of a specified outcome.
42. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
45. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
47. An informal term for a father.
50. Common Indian weaverbird.
53. The second largest continent.
54. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
56. (informal) The best of its kind n.
57. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
60. In bed.
61. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
63. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
64. Using speech rather than writing.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
68. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
71. The airforce of Great Britain.
74. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
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