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1. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. (physiology) Especially of muscles.
12. The tenth month of the Hindu calendar.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. (of persons) Seized and detained unlawfully, often for ransom.
17. (British) A title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight.
18. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
20. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
21. (Babylonian) The sky god.
22. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
23. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
25. Framework for holding objects.
27. 1 species.
29. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
32. One or some or every or all without specification.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
35. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
37. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
42. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
43. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
44. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
46. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
48. Coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position.
51. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
52. Disgustingly dirty.
53. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
54. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. Covered with frost.
63. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
64. Lower in esteem.
68. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
71. Greek mythology.
72. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
73. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
75. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
76. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
77. A great raja.
78. A transuranic element.
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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
2. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. Jordan's port.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. A doctor's degree in religion.
7. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
8. The transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit.
9. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
10. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
11. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
12. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
13. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
14. Short and fat.
19. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. An unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty.
31. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
33. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
36. With playful slyness or roguishness.
38. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
39. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
40. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
41. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
45. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
47. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
49. A painter who applies a finishing coat.
50. Parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles.
56. God of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children.
57. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
59. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
60. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
62. The basic unit of money in Peru.
65. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
66. Witnessed at first hand.
67. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
69. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
70. The cry made by sheep.
74. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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