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1. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
5. The medieval dialects of Langue d'oc.
12. An accountant certified by the state.
15. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
16. A city in southeastern Spain.
17. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
18. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
19. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
21. The condition of being free.
23. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
24. A resident of Iowa.
26. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
27. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
29. A stretch of turbulent water in the sea.
32. Rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and trap-leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle.
36. How long something has existed.
38. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
39. Marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger.
44. 5-story-tall dinosaur.
46. Lacking in light.
47. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
48. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
49. Any of various units of capacity.
50. The simplest ketone.
52. (Greek mythology) A maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers.
55. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
56. Having edges that are jagged from injury.
60. French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524).
65. The content of cognition.
67. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
68. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
71. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
72. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
73. Of or relating to an oracle.
74. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
75. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
76. Settle in a new place.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Informal terms for money.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
4. Heat again.
5. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
6. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages.
7. The sound made by corvine birds.
8. Give free rein to.
9. A movie with synchronized speech and singing.
10. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
11. Of or relating to or near the nares.
12. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. A primeval personification of air and breath.
22. Shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliage.
25. Edible bulb of an onion plant.
28. Relating to or containing gnomes.
30. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
31. A volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum.
33. A faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask.
34. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
35. Having winglike extensions.
37. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
40. A musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
45. A mining town in southern Wales.
51. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
53. A state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility.
54. A vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song).
57. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
61. A city in northern India.
62. Noisy talk.
63. Belonging to some prior time.
64. A jaunty rhythm in music.
66. Fallow deer.
69. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
70. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
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