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1. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
5. Relating to or accompanying birth.
10. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
17. Made tough by habitual exposure.
19. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
20. Black tropical American cuckoo.
22. 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.
23. The bill in a restaurant.
25. Offering fun and gaiety.
27. A radioactive transuranic element.
29. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. An associate degree in nursing.
32. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
36. A state in midwestern United States.
37. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
38. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
40. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
49. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
50. Lower in esteem.
52. Sour or bitter in taste.
54. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
56. A deep bow.
58. A state in northwestern North America.
59. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
63. Being of delicate or slender build.
64. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
66. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
68. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
72. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
73. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
74. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
2. American novelist (1909-1955).
3. French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793).
4. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
5. A quantity of no importance.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
8. How long something has existed.
9. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
10. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
11. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
12. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
18. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
21. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
24. A decree that prohibits something.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
28. Extremely pleasing.
30. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
33. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
34. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
35. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
39. The act of scanning.
41. Of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen.
42. Leave immediately.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. An informal term for a father.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
54. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
55. Jordan's port.
57. God of death.
60. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
61. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
62. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
65. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
67. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
69. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
70. A Russian river.
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