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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. French composer who is said to have created impressionism in music (1862-1918).
11. Avatar of Vishnu.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
17. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
18. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. The limits within which something can be effective.
21. Denuded of leaves.
22. A passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement.
24. A member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste.
26. Having the slant of a bevel.
27. Make improvements or corrections to.
29. Dance the slam dance.
32. A state in midwestern United States.
33. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
37. Transient cessation of respiration.
41. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
45. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
46. An enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc..
48. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
51. The feeling of patient submissive humbleness.
52. An associate degree in nursing.
53. An amoeba-like protozoan with a chitinous shell resembling an umbrella.
55. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
57. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
58. Short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears.
61. Made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned.
64. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
66. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
69. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
70. The mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it).
71. Term of address for a man.
72. A native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
75. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
76. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
77. An opal with flaming orange and yellow and red colors.
78. Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
4. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. Any of several compounds of barium.
7. The act of using.
8. Deliberately arranged for effect.
9. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
10. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
11. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
12. By bad luck.
13. The mother of Jesus.
14. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. An indication of approved or superior status.
23. Black tropical American cuckoo.
25. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
28. Of inferior or mixed breed.
30. A segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene.
31. Limbless scaly elongate reptile.
34. A French river.
35. The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).
36. A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail.
42. A loud harsh or strident noise.
43. One of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan.
44. Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes.
47. A tranquilizer (trade name Mellaril) used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
49. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
50. An Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf.
54. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
56. Very attentive or observant.
59. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
60. Being three more than ninety.
62. The capital of Western Samoa.
63. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
65. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
67. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
68. Look at with amorous intentions.
73. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
74. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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