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1. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
4. A covered cistern.
11. The time during which someone's life continues.
15. The fatty flesh of eel.
16. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.
17. The twelfth month of the civil year.
18. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
19. A poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare.
20. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
21. Woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia.
24. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
25. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
28. A state in northwestern North America.
31. A port city in western France on the Loire estuary.
35. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
38. Toward the mouth or oral region.
40. Gone by.
41. A second-rate prize fighter.
43. Seed of a pea plant.
45. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
46. A small wooded hollow.
48. A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa.
51. Of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language.
53. Genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs.
55. The activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit.
56. The airforce of Great Britain.
57. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
58. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
67. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
69. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
70. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
71. Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture.
73. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
74. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
75. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
76. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
2. Turn sharply.
3. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
4. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
5. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
6. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
7. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
8. A humorous play on words.
9. A strong emotion.
10. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
11. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
12. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
13. The basic unit of money in China.
14. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
22. A cruel and brutal fellow.
23. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. Capital of modern Macedonia.
27. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
29. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
30. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
32. The capital of Nationalist China.
33. (astronomy) The reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse.
34. A party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house).
36. Of or relating to alga.
37. A radioactive transuranic element.
39. Become less tense.
42. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
44. A member of the Manchu speaking people of Mongolian race of Manchuria.
47. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
49. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
50. Flavored with sour orange peel.
52. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
54. Informal terms for a mother.
59. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
60. A piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments.
61. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
62. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
63. Being three more than fifty.
64. A Hindu prince or king in India.
65. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
72. A form of address for a man.
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