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1. A disease of poultry.
4. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
11. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
15. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
16. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
17. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
18. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
19. A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.
20. Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive.
21. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
23. That is to say.
24. The property of having a relatively great size.
26. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
27. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
28. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
32. Lower in esteem.
35. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
39. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
41. Of the color of black ink.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. Make less active or intense.
47. Makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes.
49. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
51. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
52. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
58. Largest known toad species.
61. A populous province in northeastern China.
63. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
67. Small genus of Eurasian herbs.
69. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
71. The cry made by sheep.
72. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
73. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
75. A cgs unit of work or energy.
76. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
77. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
78. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. (India) Absolutely first class and genuine.
2. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
3. A genus of Ploceidae.
4. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. Genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.
7. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
8. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
11. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
12. Person who does no work.
13. A United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932).
14. The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave.
22. An honorary arts degree.
25. A system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region.
29. English essayist (1775-1834).
30. A portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs).
31. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
33. Obvious and dull.
34. Squash bugs.
36. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
37. Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945).
38. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
40. Found along western Atlantic coast.
42. Wildly disordered.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. The basic unit of money in Venezuela.
53. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).
55. A formal expression of praise.
56. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
57. Type genus of the Percidae.
59. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
60. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
62. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
64. In bed.
65. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
66. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
68. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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