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1. A police officer who investigates crimes.
4. The property characteristic of old age.
12. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
17. The sound made by a pigeon v 1.
18. Sweet spiced porridge made from hulled wheat.
20. Echo repeatedly, echo again and again.
22. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
25. A Formosan language.
28. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
31. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
32. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
39. A city in northern India.
40. Type genus of the Anatidae.
42. Outstanding United States athlete (1914-1956).
44. Wild and domestic cattle.
47. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
48. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
53. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
57. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. Relating to or having or hearing with two ears.
65. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
67. Difficult to describe.
68. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
71. An aggressive and violent young criminal.
72. Fiddler crabs.
73. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
76. Music in three-four time for dancing a jig.
77. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
78. Someone who commits regicide.
79. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
2. A very light brown.
3. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
4. A primeval personification of air and breath.
5. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
6. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
7. Free from liquid or moisture.
8. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
9. The square of a body of any size of type.
10. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
11. Used of locations.
12. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
13. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
14. Wood of any poon tree.
19. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
21. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
23. A festival featuring African-American culture.
24. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
29. (of a musical instrument) Intermediate between alto and baritone or bass.
30. Lower in esteem.
33. Moving quickly and lightly.
34. Physically weak.
35. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
38. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
41. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
43. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
49. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
51. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
52. Silence (someone) by uttering "shush!".
54. A motley assortment of things.
55. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
56. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
58. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
59. A woman of refinement.
62. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain.
63. Stay clear from.
64. A projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
70. British informal term.
74. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
75. 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.
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