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1. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
5. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
12. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
15. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
16. Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior.
17. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
23. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
25. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
26. A share of something.
27. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
34. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
37. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
40. German mathematician (1804-1851).
41. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
42. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
43. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
46. The sixth day of the week.
47. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.
49. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
58. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
60. The state of being under the control of another person.
63. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
67. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
68. Large Old World butterflies.
71. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
72. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
73. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
74. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
75. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
76. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
77. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
4. Antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia.
5. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
8. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
9. Treated with iodine.
10. Used of old persons or old trees.
11. Make or shape as with an axe.
12. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
13. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
14. A three-tone Chadic language.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
28. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
29. Any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna.
30. Belonging to some prior time.
31. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
32. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
33. Walking with your feet in shallow water.
35. Capital and largest city of Italy.
36. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
38. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
39. (in writing) See below.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
45. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
48. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
50. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
51. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
53. A large fleet.
55. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
56. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
57. Forming viscous or glutinous threads.
59. Jordan's port.
61. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
62. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
64. The female reproductive cell.
65. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
66. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
69. The extreme end of something.
70. Fiddler crabs.
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