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1. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
4. Do away with.
11. An aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees.
15. Being one more than two.
16. A region of southern Italy (forming the instep of the Italian `boot').
17. Being here now.
18. Coextensive with the family Palmae.
20. A person who gains weight.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. A vigorous blow.
24. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
25. Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain.
29. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
31. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
34. Informal terms for a mother.
35. An expression of greeting.
39. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
40. Not subjected to an aging process.
44. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
46. A yellow quartz.
49. Very fertile.
51. Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell.
53. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
54. A festival featuring African-American culture.
56. Become adolescent.
58. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
59. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
60. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
65. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
68. Toward the mouth or oral region.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
75. Water frozen in the solid state.
76. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
77. A member of the British order of honor.
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1. Type genus of the Pipidae.
2. The basic unit of money in Iran.
3. Large Indian antelope.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. Small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers.
6. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
7. The sacred city of Lamaism.
8. Not out.
9. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
10. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
11. Take by theft.
12. A reddish brown dye used especially on hair.
13. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
14. (medieval Europe) A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
19. A member of the Manchu speaking people of Mongolian race of Manchuria.
21. Jordan's port.
26. A quantity that is added.
27. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
28. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
30. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
32. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
33. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
36. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
37. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
41. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
42. Spanish painter best known for his portraits (1746-1828).
43. (a dated Briticism) A serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
45. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
47. Relating to or included in the zodiac.
48. United States tennis player who dominated men's tennis in the 1920s (1893-1953).
50. Make uniform.
52. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
55. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
57. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
61. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
62. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
63. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
64. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
66. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
67. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
69. The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
74. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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