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1. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
12. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
15. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. Made ready or fit or suitable beforehand.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
19. Pearl oysters.
20. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
21. The male ruler of an empire.
23. Relating to or containing bile.
25. Veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onions and whipping cream.
27. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
28. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
29. A particular environment or walk of life.
32. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
36. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
41. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
42. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
44. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
45. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
46. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
48. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
49. Membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth.
51. An island of central Hawaii.
53. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
54. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
56. Flat tableland with steep edges.
57. Gone by.
60. East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder.
64. (of an infant) Breast-fed.
68. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
71. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
72. Similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region.
73. An ax used to slaughter cattle.
74. A light touch or stroke.
75. Having made preparations.
76. Apple grown chiefly in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
77. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
2. A port in southern Sweden.
3. A fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris.
4. Informing by words.
5. Any monosaccharide sugar containing three atoms of carbon per molecule.
6. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
7. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
8. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
9. Annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia.
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
12. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
13. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
14. Any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl.
22. Very dark black.
24. Make oneself subject to.
26. The capital and largest city of Austria.
30. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
31. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
33. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
34. Type genus of the Laridae.
35. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
38. Inquire about.
39. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
40. Little known Kamarupan languages.
43. A climber of vertical rock faces.
47. A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings.
50. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
52. An informal debt instrument.
55. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
58. United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (born in 1935).
59. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).
61. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
62. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
63. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
65. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
66. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
70. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
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