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1. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
5. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
12. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
15. Free of extraneous elements of any kind.
16. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
17. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
18. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
19. Administer an oil or ointment to.
20. An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean.
22. Exaggerate one's acting.
25. A subfamily of Indic languages.
28. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
29. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
32. Gone by.
38. A binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element.
40. Kindly endorsement and guidance.
41. Antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia.
42. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
46. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits.
47. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
48. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
49. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
50. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
54. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
55. The eleventh month of the civil year.
57. A woman's close-fitting foundation garment.
59. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
67. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
68. Pertaining to or resembling Utopia.
71. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
72. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
73. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
74. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
75. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
76. United States politician who was elected the first Black may of Los Angeles (1917-1998).
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. (computer science) A read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data.
2. Small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit.
3. Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907).
4. French painter who developed pointilism (1859-1891).
5. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
6. A woman gossip.
7. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
8. Something that resembles a pill in shape or size.
9. (informal) Of the highest quality.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. The value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis.
12. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Lupus and Ara in the Milky Way.
13. The act of swimming.
14. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
21. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
23. (biochemistry) Purine base found in DNA and RNA.
24. A thrusting blow with a knife.
26. A state in New England.
27. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
30. 1 species.
31. Accumulate on the surface.
33. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
34. The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another.
35. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
36. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
37. Highly excited.
39. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
43. Protozoa characterized by a pseudopod.
44. A milkshake with egg in it.
45. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
51. One thousand periods per second.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
53. The slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
56. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
58. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
60. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
61. Slow to learn or understand.
62. A wine bottle made of leather.
63. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
65. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
66. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
69. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
70. A negative.
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