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1. The cry made by sheep.
4. A port and fashionable resort city on southern Mexico's Pacific coast.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. The act of expanding an aperture.
17. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
18. Covered with paving material.
20. A tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled.
21. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
22. City in central Iran.
23. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
25. The protruding part of the lower jaw.
26. A quantity of no importance.
27. A large fleet.
32. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
39. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
40. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
41. The state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once).
43. Squash bugs.
45. Someone whose business is advertising.
47. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
48. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
49. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
51. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
54. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
56. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
58. A bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century).
62. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
66. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
67. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
70. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
71. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
72. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
74. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
75. Employed in accomplishing something.
76. A lack of vitality.
77. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. By bad luck.
3. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
8. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
9. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
10. United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942).
11. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
12. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
13. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
14. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
19. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
24. Snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
28. Of or in or relating to the nose.
29. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
30. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
31. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
33. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
34. Wood of a sumac.
35. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
36. A timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end.
37. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
38. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
42. The act of swimming.
44. Somewhat hard.
46. Used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles.
50. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
52. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
53. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
55. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
57. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
59. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
60. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
61. A primeval personification of air and breath.
63. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
64. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
68. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
69. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
73. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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