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1. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
4. An interpreter and guide in the Near East.
12. A poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis.
15. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. A tranquilizer (trade name Loxitane) used to treat schizophrenia.
17. A toilet in England.
18. (informal) Roused to anger.
19. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
20. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967).
25. Noisy talk.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
34. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
41. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
42. Wearing or provided with clothing.
44. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
45. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
49. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. Hiding from view.
54. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
57. A form of Japanese poetry.
58. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
60. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
63. Hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo.
65. Someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
69. The capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country.
72. A port in southwestern Scotland.
73. God of fire.
74. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
76. Range of what one can know or understand.
77. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
78. A diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work.
79. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. Wood of a sumac.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
5. An established line of travel or access.
6. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
7. An awkward stupid person.
8. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
9. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
10. Type genus of the Anatidae.
11. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
12. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
13. Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
14. Unaged colorless liquor originating in Russia.
21. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
23. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
31. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. With no effort to conceal.
33. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
35. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
36. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
38. A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein.
39. A region marking a boundary.
40. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
43. A human limb.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
47. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
48. Jordan's port.
51. Old fashioned airplane.
53. In a stagy and theatrical manner.
55. Land received by fee tail v 1.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. United States baseball player.
61. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
62. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
64. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
66. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
67. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
68. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
70. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
71. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
75. Before noon.
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