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1. Adopted in order to deceive.
5. Herbs of temperate regions.
12. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
15. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
16. Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape.
17. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
18. Type genus of the Blattidae.
20. A rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo).
21. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
22. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. Traveling on horseback.
28. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
33. Reflect light or colors like an opal.
38. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
42. Fiddler crabs.
45. (British) Your grandmother.
46. An old Scottish coin of little value.
48. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
51. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
56. Very small.
60. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
63. To or from every one of two or more (considered individually).
64. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
65. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
68. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
69. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
70. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
72. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
73. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
74. English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures.
75. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.
2. Type genus of the Hylidae.
3. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
4. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
5. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
6. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
7. The basic unit of money on Malta.
8. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
9. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
10. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
11. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
12. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
13. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
14. A wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women.
19. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
27. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
29. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
30. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
31. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
32. A Russian river.
34. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
35. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
36. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
37. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
40. A town twenty miles east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name).
41. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
43. Of or relating to the feet.
44. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
47. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
49. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
52. Foul with waste matter.
53. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
54. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
55. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
57. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
58. Sour or bitter in taste.
59. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
61. The muscular back part of the shank.
62. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
66. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
67. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
71. An associate degree in nursing.
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