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1. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
4. A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink).
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
15. Liquid excretory product.
16. The condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water).
17. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. Small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba.
20. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
21. Something that interests you because it is important or affects you.
23. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
25. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
26. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
28. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
31. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
35. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
36. An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.
38. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
39. A member of a formerly tribal people in south central India.
40. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
41. The residue that remains when something is burned.
42. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
43. Tie again or anew.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
51. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
52. Stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere.
55. Not out.
57. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
60. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
66. Type genus of the Caviidae.
68. In bed.
71. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
72. God of death.
73. Not prepared or in a state of readiness.
74. Former measure of the US economy.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.
3. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
4. A passage selected from a larger work.
5. A city in central Illinois on the Illinois River.
6. A man of great strength or bravery.
7. An argument opposed to a proposal.
8. Communicated in words.
9. The German state.
10. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
11. The capital of Tajikistan.
12. Advanced in years.
13. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
14. Channel into a new direction.
22. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
24. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
27. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
29. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. Tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar.
32. A doctor's degree in optometry.
33. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
34. A thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
37. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
44. Submerged freshwater perennials.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
46. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
47. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
48. A walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang.
53. The capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan.
54. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
56. Something that remunerates.
58. Third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts.
59. Held back.
61. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
62. Report or maintain.
63. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
64. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
65. Slightly wet.
67. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
69. A radioactive transuranic element that is similar to uranium.
70. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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