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1. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
4. Any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess.
12. Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle.
15. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
16. Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds.
17. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
18. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
19. English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924).
20. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
22. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
24. (prefix) Half or partial.
25. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
26. English philologist (1835-1912).
27. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
28. Tropical American trees.
30. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
33. A French abbot.
36. A soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae.
39. A system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region.
43. Lacking in liveliness or animation.
44. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
53. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
54. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
58. Wool of the alpaca.
61. An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining).
65. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. Furnished with people.
73. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
74. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
75. A persistent attacker.
76. A thin strip (wood or metal).
77. The fatty flesh of eel.
78. An electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals.
79. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
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1. Notable English cricketer (1882-1963).
2. Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime.
3. A state of sanctification by God.
4. Lack of sight.
5. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
6. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
7. A brief indulgence of your impulses.
8. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
9. Health care for the needy.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. A state in the western United States.
12. English writer of stories for children (1882-1956).
13. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
14. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
23. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
29. Either extremity of something that has length.
31. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
32. The act of rising upward into the air.
34. Israeli religious philosopher (born in Austria) (1878-1965).
35. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
37. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
38. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
40. A tributary of the Rhine.
41. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
42. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
45. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
47. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
49. A throne that is the official chair of a bishop.
51. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
52. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
55. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
56. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
57. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
59. A formal expression of praise.
60. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
62. Deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour).
63. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
64. Related on the mother's side.
66. Look at with amorous intentions.
67. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
68. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
71. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
72. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
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