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1. Type genus of the Majidae.
5. Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman.
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. The sixth month of the civil year.
16. Watch and direct.
17. The act of using.
18. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
19. A person who is abnormally small.
20. A Bantu language.
22. A spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others.
24. Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art (1872-1944).
26. An island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea.
28. Newspaper writers and photographers.
29. The third month of the civil year.
31. Type genus of the Tapiridae.
35. A state in midwestern United States.
36. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
38. Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC).
39. Having a margin with rounded scallops.
43. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
44. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
45. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
48. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. A record in which commercial accounts are recorded.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
56. Above the surround or above the normal position.
58. Very large red gum tree.
62. Periapsis in Earth orbit.
65. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
73. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
74. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
75. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
76. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
77. Used of a single unit or thing.
78. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
79. A small shelter for domestic animals (as sheep or pigeons).
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1. Occurring widely (as to many people).
2. Chief port of Yemen.
3. German mathematician (1804-1851).
4. A former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders).
5. A Spanish title of respect for a gentleman or nobleman.
6. Russian choreographer (1834-1905).
7. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
8. A playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps.
9. Keep company with.
10. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
11. Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium.
12. A branch of the Tai languages.
13. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
14. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
21. Any of various plants of the genus Ursinia grown for their yellow- or orange- or white-rayed flowers.
23. An ax used to slaughter cattle.
25. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
27. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
30. Become hard or harder.
32. An abundance of material possessions and resources.
33. A member of the Uniat Church.
34. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
37. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
40. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
41. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
42. Considerate and solicitous care.
46. The residue that remains when something is burned.
47. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
51. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. A city in south central California in the San Joaquin Valley.
55. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
57. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
59. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
60. Any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules.
61. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
63. Very dark black.
64. A feeling of intense anger.
66. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
67. Any of various small biting flies.
68. Being here now.
71. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
72. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
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