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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. The middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue.
12. An enclosed space.
15. An informal debt instrument.
16. (of exocrine glands) Producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A master's degree in library science.
19. A person whose occupation is making and altering garments.
20. Regularly spaced in time.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
24. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
25. Using speech rather than writing.
29. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
31. Advance beyond the usual limit.
35. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
39. A licensed medical practitioner.
40. Imagined as in a play.
41. American Revolutionary patriot.
42. A fraudulent business scheme.
45. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
47. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
49. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
50. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
57. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
58. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
61. A plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask.
62. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
63. A port city in southwestern Iran.
68. The capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
73. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
75. Having leadership guidance.
76. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
77. Fairy shrimp.
78. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.
2. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
3. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
4. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
5. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
6. Any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup.
7. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
8. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.
9. A genus of Mustelidae.
10. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
11. A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode.
12. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
13. Advanced in years.
14. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
22. Any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers.
26. Noisy talk.
27. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
28. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
30. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
32. A genus of bee.
33. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
34. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
36. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
37. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
38. The residue that remains when something is burned.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. An examination consisting of a few short questions.
46. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
48. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
51. An aggressive and violent young criminal.
52. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
53. Being nine more than forty.
54. French tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
55. Toward the mouth or oral region.
56. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
59. A drama set to music.
60. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
64. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
66. In bed.
67. A quantity of no importance.
69. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
70. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
74. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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