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1. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. Situated away from the axis of any body or part.
11. A French abbot.
15. Being six more than fifty.
16. (psychiatry) An unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.
17. The habitation of wild animals.
18. An airfield equipped with control tower and hangers as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo.
20. An Indian gum from the dhawa tree.
21. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
24. A wound resulting from biting.
25. A genus of Caltha.
27. Offering little or no hope.
28. Before noon.
30. Mix up or confuse.
33. Given official approval to act.
37. A sculpture representing a human or animal.
39. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
40. God of the Underworld.
42. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
43. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A white powder (LiCO3) used in manufacturing glass and ceramics and as a drug.
51. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
52. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
55. The basic unit of money in Saudi Arabia.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
61. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
64. A fast shot made with a short powerful swing of the hockey stick.
68. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
69. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
72. The ending of a series or sequence.
73. Of southern Europe.
74. Succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers.
76. Any high mountain.
77. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
78. A great raja.
79. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Morally bad or wrong.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. A rapid bustling commotion.
5. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
6. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
7. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
8. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
9. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
10. A style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law.
11. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
12. A dyed fabric.
13. A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).
14. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
19. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
22. A genus of Ploceidae.
23. Any of various units of capacity.
26. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
29. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
31. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
32. Of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula.
34. The quantity a cask will hold.
35. City in Sudan.
36. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
38. Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
46. Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals.
47. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
49. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
50. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
53. An East Indian sailor.
54. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
57. A member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin.
58. Type genus of the Elopidae.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
62. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
63. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
65. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
66. Look at with amorous intentions.
67. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
70. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
71. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
75. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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