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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. Egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow.
12. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
15. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
16. The mints.
17. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
18. Filled with fear or apprehension.
20. Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).
22. Layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream.
24. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
25. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. Remove gas from.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A detested person.
36. One whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper.
39. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
41. Water frozen in the solid state.
43. Of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures.
44. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
48. Located in or toward the back or rear.
49. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
50. Step on it.
52. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
53. New Zealand conifer.
56. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
59. A pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene.
62. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
63. A long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor.
64. Relating to the Lamaze method of childbirth.
68. In or of the month preceding the present one.
69. Any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads.
73. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
74. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. A deep prolonged loud noise.
77. One or some or every or all without specification.
78. Dragonflies and damselflies.
79. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
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1. Make secure by lashing.
2. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
3. United States baseball player (born 1925).
4. English essayist (1775-1834).
5. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
6. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
7. A disease of poultry.
8. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
9. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
10. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
11. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
12. Wearing or provided with clothing.
13. Having been read.
14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
19. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
21. To work at or to absurd length.
23. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
29. A primeval personification of air and breath.
31. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
33. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
34. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
35. Any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals.
37. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
40. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
45. Relieve from military service.
46. Placed in a grave.
47. Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.
51. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
54. A city in northwestern Syria.
55. A Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo.
57. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
58. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
60. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
61. Full of ruts.
65. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
66. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
67. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
70. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
71. Fiddler crabs.
72. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
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