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1. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
4. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
10. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
13. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
14. A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
18. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
20. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
21. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
23. Unknown god.
24. Type genus of the Amiidae.
26. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
28. Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech.
31. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
35. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
44. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
45. Covered with paving material.
48. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
50. Lower in esteem.
53. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
57. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
60. The month following February and preceding April.
61. (archaic) A fitting reward.
62. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
64. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
68. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
71. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
72. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
73. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Elegant and stylish.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
4. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
5. The basic unit of money in Mauritania.
6. A form of address for a man.
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. Used especially in treating bruises.
9. An affirmative.
10. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
11. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
12. Fallow deer.
17. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
19. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
22. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
27. A state in midwestern United States.
29. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
30. The sixth month of the civil year.
32. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
33. A transuranic element.
34. An enclosed space.
37. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A light touch or stroke.
43. A tight-fitting headdress.
46. God of death.
47. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
49. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
51. Fed beyond capacity or desire.
52. Any plant of the genus Erica.
54. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
56. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
58. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
59. Slightly open.
63. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
65. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
69. An informal term for a father.
70. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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