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1. Enlarged prostate.
4. West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood.
12. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. Any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits.
17. A port in southwestern Scotland.
18. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
19. An abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance.
20. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
21. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
23. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
24. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
26. Severely simple in line or design.
28. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe.
29. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
32. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
36. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. An argument opposed to a proposal.
50. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
51. Flat tableland with steep edges.
52. Marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact.
55. A reformed prostitute.
56. An associate degree in nursing.
61. A slight amount or degree of difference.
66. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
71. A female lion.
73. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
74. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
75. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
76. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
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1. A long and hard-hit fly ball.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. One of the 7 gods of happiness.
4. Wild and domestic cattle.
5. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
6. A person who enjoys reading.
7. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
8. The residue that remains when something is burned.
9. Not subject to change or variation especially in behavior.
10. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
11. A person being ordained.
12. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
13. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
14. A line or route along which something travels or moves.
22. Mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds.
25. Type genus of the Amiidae.
27. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
33. A reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction.
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. Declared but not proved.
38. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
39. Excessively fat.
40. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
42. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
45. A state in the eastern United States.
46. Restricting the scope or freedom of action.
47. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
49. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
53. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
54. Fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat.
58. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
59. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
60. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
62. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
63. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
64. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
65. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
68. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
69. A unit of pressure.
72. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
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