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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. A populous province of south central China.
12. The sign language used in the United States.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers.
19. Holding or containing nothing.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
22. Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
28. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
31. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
36. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
37. The eleventh month of the civil year.
39. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
42. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
43. Cause to lose one's nerve.
44. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
45. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
47. 1/1000 gram.
48. The mints.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. The basic unit of money in Sri Lanka.
57. The sixth month of the civil year.
61. The Indic language of the Sindhi people.
63. A glass for beer.
65. A photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays).
69. Late time of life.
70. Engage in political activities.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
75. A family of birds of the suborder Oscines.
76. Of the blackest black.
77. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
78. Hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes.
79. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. Possessing material wealth.
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
4. Supporting stalk or stemlike structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap.
5. Relating to or included in the zodiac.
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
8. (sport) Used of your own ground.
9. The act of rubbing or wiping.
10. With one leg on each side.
11. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
23. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
24. Sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Mohammed during his life at Mecca and Medina.
25. A state in New England.
27. A solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits.
29. Squash bugs.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
32. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
33. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
34. The capital and largest city of Niger.
35. An Asian river.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. Old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. (Greek mythology) The supreme god of ancient mythology.
50. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
51. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
56. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
59. Having help.
62. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
68. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
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