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1. Inquire about.
4. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
11. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
15. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
16. Exposing human folly to ridicule.
17. Sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
18. A Russian river.
20. Capable of being corrupted.
22. Type genus of the Scombridae.
23. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
24. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).
27. Remove from memory or existence.
28. The second largest city in Tunisia.
31. Reflect light or colors like an opal.
33. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
35. Your general store of remembered information.
38. Free from error.
40. A decorative pin worn by women.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. The condition of having no arms.
47. (British) An old shabby movie theater.
49. Regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smoothes the operation of a reciprocating engine.
50. Gradual internal motion or deformation.
51. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
52. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. Type genus of the Anatidae.
57. A doctor's degree in religion.
58. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
62. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
65. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
66. The wife or widow of a czar.
69. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
71. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
72. A primeval personification of air and breath.
73. Containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody.
75. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
76. An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
77. Temporal sense.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A bachelor's degree in library science.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. Obtained from various tropical plants.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. (British) A ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage.
6. (Greek mythology) One of the 7 Pleiades.
7. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
8. Composed of or covered with relatively large particles.
9. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
10. Being nine more than ninety.
11. A former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere).
12. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
13. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
14. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) From that fact or reason or as a result.
19. A stock exchange in New York.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
26. Structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly.
29. An behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual.
30. Feeling or showing anger.
32. Be going to.
34. Cut or impressed into a surface.
36. Type genus of the Triglidae.
37. A pair of people who live together.
39. Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail.
41. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
42. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
45. A powerful light with reflector.
46. That is to say.
48. A long slender cigar.
54. Triteness or triviality of style.
56. A manicurist who trims the fingernails.
59. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
60. Procumbent or spreading juniper.
61. An extended area of land.
63. Avatar of Vishnu.
64. Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804).
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
74. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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