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1. Rate of revolution of a motor.
4. Drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects.
10. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. Felt hat with a creased crown.
15. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
16. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
18. A branch of the Tai languages.
20. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
21. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
22. 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.
23. An awkward stupid person.
25. 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.
27. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. Dwell (archaic).
34. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
39. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
40. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
41. A Loloish language.
43. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
44. A magic power or magic spell.
46. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
48. (British) Your grandmother.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
56. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
60. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
62. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
65. The cry made by sheep.
66. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
67. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
69. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
70. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
71. A port city in southwestern Iran.
72. A light touch or stroke.
73. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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1. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
4. Your general store of remembered information.
5. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
6. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
7. A natural talent.
8. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
9. A Mid-Atlantic state.
10. Largest known toad species.
11. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
12. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
17. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Extremely pleasing.
26. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
28. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
31. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
32. An informal term for a father.
33. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
35. A Hindu prince or king in India.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
38. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
42. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
43. A natural talent.
45. A slender double-reed instrument.
47. Celestial shepherd god.
50. Jordan's port.
52. A white trivalent metallic element.
54. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
57. In bed.
58. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
59. Material used to daub walls.
61. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
63. (informal) Roused to anger.
64. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
68. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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