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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation.
12. Top part of an apron.
15. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
16. A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Former usage synonymous with Antedon.
20. A young woman making her debut into society.
21. Be earlier in time.
23. A short literary or musical composition.
25. An extreme state of adversity.
27. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
29. The basic unit of money in Romania.
30. Formally supported especially by public statement.
34. An inhabitant of Lappland.
36. Type genus of the Majidae.
39. A trap for birds or small mammals.
40. Related to or having filaments especially across a field of view.
42. Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct liquids or gases.
45. Rate of revolution of a motor.
46. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
47. A quantity of no importance.
49. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
51. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
52. A resource.
55. A streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine.
58. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
59. The lowest molding of an architectural base or of a baseboard.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. To patch up or renovate.
70. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
71. A three-year law degree.
72. The state capital of South Australia.
74. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
75. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
76. A great raja.
77. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. A sudden very loud noise.
2. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
3. A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived.
4. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
5. A white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores.
6. A timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end.
7. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
8. The seventh and last day of the week.
9. Elected Vice President in Roosevelt's 4th term.
10. Load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully".
11. Lasting through a year.
12. Dwell (archaic).
13. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
14. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
22. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
24. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
26. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
28. The capital of Nationalist China.
31. Of a light brownish color.
32. The act of detecting something.
33. Out of fashion.
35. Appeal or request earnestly.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
38. The state capital of Alaska.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
44. Speak in a nasal voice.
48. Any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudo-bulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers.
50. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known a Iraq.
53. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
54. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
56. Transparent anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
60. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. The capital of Western Samoa.
63. A couple who both have careers and no children.
64. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
65. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
68. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
69. The month following February and preceding April.
73. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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