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1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. A person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses.
11. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.
17. (sport) Used of your own ground.
18. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
19. Treat with excessive indulgence.
21. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
23. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
25. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
27. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
29. Hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany.
33. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778).
36. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
38. Same in identity.
39. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
41. A genus of Laridae.
43. An accountant certified by the state.
45. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
47. At a specific prior time.
48. Of or relating to apnea.
50. United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973).
51. Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes.
54. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
55. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
56. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
57. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
58. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
60. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
64. Capital of Armenia.
68. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
69. Informal terms for money.
72. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
73. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
74. Showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states.
76. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
77. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
78. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
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1. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
2. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
3. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. The sound made by a pigeon v 1.
6. Any of various water spirits.
7. A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
8. A small island.
9. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
10. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
11. Reflecting light.
12. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. Type genus of the Amiidae.
14. The food served and eaten at one time.
20. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
22. Spread or diffuse through.
24. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
26. A Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains.
28. Liqueur poured over shaved ice.
30. Type genus of the Mugilidae.
31. Old World tropical herbs.
32. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
34. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
35. A just detectable amount.
37. (Assyrian) Chief god of the Assyrians.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. A Greek island west of Greece.
44. A step to one side (as in boxing or dancing).
46. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
49. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
52. The capital and largest city of Japan.
53. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
59. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
61. Using speech rather than writing.
62. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
63. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
65. Characteristic of false pride.
66. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
67. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
70. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
71. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
75. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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