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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
10. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
14. A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission.
15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
16. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
18. In operation or operational.
20. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. An unforeseen obstacle.
24. A decree that prohibits something.
26. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
28. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
31. An expression of greeting.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
43. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
45. A small sc or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth).
46. indicate by signs.
47. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
48. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
49. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
51. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
56. Before noon.
58. An associate degree in nursing.
63. A rapid bustling commotion.
65. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
68. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
69. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
70. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
71. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
72. An informal term for a father.
73. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
5. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
6. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
9. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
11. Obvious and dull.
12. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
17. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
19. An honorary degree in science.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
27. Any plant of the genus Erica.
30. Gone by.
34. Of or belonging to an aecium.
36. A French abbot.
38. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
40. A radioactive transuranic element that is similar to uranium.
41. A kind of person.
42. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
44. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
50. A genus of Ploceidae.
52. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
54. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
57. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
59. A student who studies excessively.
60. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
61. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
62. God of love and erotic desire.
64. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
66. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
67. The cry made by sheep.
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