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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. Small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals.
12. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
15. A small piece of cloth.
16. The principal form of iron ore.
17. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
18. The residue that remains when something is burned.
19. Archaic name for England or Great Britain.
20. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
21. A choice or delicious dish.
23. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
24. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
25. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
26. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
32. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
35. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
38. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
40. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
42. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
43. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. 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.
47. 1/10 gram.
48. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
50. Milk thickened with a butter and flour roux.
52. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
53. Remaining after all deductions.
55. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
57. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. The name that precedes the surname.
64. The tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column.
66. French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France.
69. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
70. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
72. Type genus of the Nepidae.
73. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
74. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
76. A branch of the Tai languages.
77. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
78. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
79. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
2. A bowl-shaped vessel.
3. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
4. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
5. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
6. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems.
7. Marked by cairns.
8. A book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island.
9. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
10. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
11. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
12. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
13. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
14. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
22. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
27. The capital of Croatia.
29. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
31. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
33. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
34. The capital and largest city of the Central Africa Republic.
36. Money in the form of bills or coins.
37. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
39. Affectedly dainty or refined.
41. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
44. A person who makes (and sells) perfumes.
45. Type genus of the Ochotonidae.
49. A populous province in northeastern China.
51. The least possible.
54. Covered with paving material.
56. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.
58. Cause to feel relaxed.
61. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
62. A public promotion of some product or service.
63. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
65. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
67. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
68. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
71. A licensed medical practitioner.
75. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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