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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded).
12. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
15. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
16. The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness.
17. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
18. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
20. A kiln for drying hops.
22. Tropical African and Indian herbs.
24. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
26. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
28. A British abbreviation.
30. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
31. A lake in northwestern Russia.
32. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
36. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
39. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
41. Informal terms for a mother.
42. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
44. A state in midwestern United States.
46. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
47. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
52. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
60. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
64. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
65. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
68. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
70. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
71. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
73. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
74. On or toward the lee.
75. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
76. A bachelor's degree in theology.
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1. Not functioning properly.
2. Walk or tramp about.
3. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
4. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. Personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation.
7. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
8. Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills.
9. Roman statesman who became emperor of Rome after defeating Mark Antony at Actium (63 BC - AD 14).
10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
11. A person forced to flee from home or country.
12. United States magician (born in Hungary) famous for his ability to escape from chains or handcuffs or straitjackets of padlocked containers (1874-1926).
13. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
14. Literature in metrical form.
19. Gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth.
21. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
23. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
25. A large fleet.
27. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
29. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
33. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
34. An accidental happening.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
38. Greek mythology.
40. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
43. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
45. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
50. A hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for.
51. A discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
54. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
56. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
58. Mild cream-colored Dutch cheese shaped in balls.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
62. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
63. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone).
66. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
67. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
69. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
72. Before noon.
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