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1. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
5. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
12. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
15. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set).
20. Antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
23. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
24. Jordan's port.
26. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
29. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
30. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
32. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
33. A young woman making her debut into society.
35. A populous province in northeastern China.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
46. The lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters.
51. A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel).
52. A man who delivers the mail.
53. A genus of Nymphalidae.
55. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
56. Chick-pea plant.
58. Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey.
59. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
62. Of or relating to avionics.
69. Haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter.
72. 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.
73. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
74. Low tree ferns with large fronds.
76. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
77. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
78. Goat grass.
79. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
2. American novelist (1909-1955).
3. A genus of Ploceidae.
4. Sea catfishes.
5. A nation in northern North America.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
8. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
9. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
10. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
11. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
12. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
13. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
14. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
19. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. A rapid bustling commotion.
31. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
34. Half the width of an em.
36. A bowl-shaped vessel.
37. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
38. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
39. Physical strength.
40. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
41. Perfume esp. with a censer.
43. Wildly disordered.
44. An associate degree in nursing.
47. A kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles.
48. The honeycreepers.
49. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
50. Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood.
54. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
57. Being ten more than one hundred.
60. Squash bugs.
61. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
63. Any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family.
64. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
65. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
66. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
67. A sudden short attack.
68. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
70. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
71. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
75. 1/10 gram.
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