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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
5. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
11. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
15. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
16. A strikingly beautiful woman.
17. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
18. The capital and largest city of Lithuania.
19. Lower in esteem.
20. A bluish shade of green.
21. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
23. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
25. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
28. A light touch or stroke.
30. An established custom.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
45. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
46. Coming into existence.
48. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
50. The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.
52. The ohmic resistance of a conductor.
54. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. (used of living things especially persons) In an early period of life or development or growth.
57. A state in midwestern United States.
58. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
61. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
69. The capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti.
71. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
72. In the Roman calendar.
73. Morning glory.
75. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
76. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
77. The area for food preparation on a ship.
78. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
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1. Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year.
2. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
3. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
4. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
5. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
6. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
9. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
10. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
11. Poorly stated or described.
12. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
13. An unforeseen obstacle.
14. Type genus of the Ranidae.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
26. Informal terms for a mother.
27. An honorary degree in science.
29. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
31. The capital of Guinea-Bissau.
32. Attack as false or wrong.
33. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
35. Make less active or intense.
36. An oil port in southern Iraq.
37. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
38. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
39. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
42. The event of dying or departure from life.
43. A town in north central Oklahoma.
47. A state of warm snug comfort.
49. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
51. Noisy talk.
53. Tree frogs.
59. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
60. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
62. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
63. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
64. Of or relating to near the ear.
65. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
66. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
67. (prefix) Outside or outer.
68. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
70. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
74. A Russian river.
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