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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. The value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis.
12. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
15. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
16. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
17. The sign language used in the United States.
18. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
19. Exultantly proud and joyful.
20. Strong and sharp.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
25. For or by a group rather than individuals.
27. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
29. Of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain.
31. A long narrow excavation in the earth.
34. An accidental happening.
35. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
39. An immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ.
42. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
45. Gone by.
46. (informal) Of the highest quality.
48. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
49. The petals of a flower collectively forming an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth.
51. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
52. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
56. Consider or hold as true.
59. A New England state.
61. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
62. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. A mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys.
72. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
73. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
75. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
76. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
77. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
78. River in eastern Asia.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
5. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
6. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.
7. 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.
8. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
9. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
10. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
11. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
12. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
13. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
14. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
21. Includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia.
23. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
26. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
28. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
32. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
33. A person who gives private instruction (as in singing or acting).
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
37. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
38. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
40. A genus of Ploceidae.
41. The central area of a church.
43. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
44. A geometric element that has position but no extension.
47. A merchant who sells men's clothing.
50. Be obedient to.
53. Used of locations.
54. Used of clothing.
55. Felt hat with a creased crown.
57. A telegram sent abroad.
58. An informal term for a father.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
63. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
64. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
67. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
69. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
71. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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