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1. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
4. Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907).
12. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
19. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
20. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
21. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
22. An honorary arts degree.
25. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
29. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
32. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
37. Touched lightly in passing.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
44. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
45. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
49. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
51. An American follower of the Mennonite Bishop Amman.
52. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
56. A public promotion of some product or service.
58. Singing jazz.
61. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
68. The remains of a dead body after cremation.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. A human limb.
74. Any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103.
75. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
76. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
77. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ghana or its people or language.
78. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
2. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
3. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
4. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
7. Remove the fangs from (canines, snakes, etc.).
8. Not subjected to an aging process.
9. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
10. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
11. Being nine more than forty.
12. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
13. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
14. An informal term for a father.
23. Make a splashing sound.
24. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. Chief port of Yemen.
27. The eleventh month of the civil year.
28. Top part of an apron.
30. A large fleet.
31. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
34. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
35. A nation in northern North America.
36. King of Wessex.
38. Money in the form of bills or coins.
41. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
42. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature (1888-1965).
43. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
46. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
48. Strong and sharp.
50. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
54. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
55. Roman Catholic theologian (1585-1638).
57. God of wealth and love.
59. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
60. Affect with wonder.
62. In bed.
63. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
64. Being three more than fifty.
65. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
66. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
69. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
70. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
71. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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