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1. An honorary degree in science. 4. Large red-skinned apple. 12. Having undesirable or negative qualities. 15. The month following February and preceding April. 16. Reprehensible acquisitiveness. 17. The month following March and preceding
May. 18. (of farmland) Capable of being farmed productively. 20. Intelligence derived from non-communications electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources). 21. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest. 22. The act of putting something in working
order again. 23. A set of related records (either written or
electronic) kept together. 25. Coming next after the eleventh and just
before the thirteenth in position. 27. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by
Earth's orbital motion. 29. The blood group whose red cells carry
both the A and B antigens. 30. A white metallic element that burns with a
brilliant light. 31. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness. 41. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization. 44. One thousand grams. 45. Jordan's port. 47. More than enough in size or scope or
capacity. 48. Take something away by force or without
the consent of the owner. 49. A region of Malaysia in northeastern
Borneo. 50. Large dark brown North American arboreal
carnivorous mammal. 54. Type genus of the Amiidae. 58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake
Chad. 59. A fastener for a door or lid. 62. Either extremity of something that has
length. 65. British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the Empress of India (1804-1881). 69. The compass point midway between
northeast and east. 70. An abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance. 72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made
from aba cloth. 73. The habitation of wild animals. 74. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean. 75. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle
where driver sits.
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1. Showing mental alertness and calculation
and resourcefulness. 2. English Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry was
favored by Charles I (1595-1639). 3. Hanging cloth used as a blind. 4. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim
state. 5. Tax excessively. 6. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores. 7. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws. 8. In ancient Semitic folklore. 9. Departing or being caused to depart from
the true vertical or horizontal. 10. Denoting a quantity consisting of one
more than eight and one less than ten. 11. An audiotape recording of sound. 12. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp. 13. Relating to or having the characteristics of
bees. 14. Any of numerous low-growing cushionforming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems. 19. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature. 24. A cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or
lamb) from the upper part of the leg. 26. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color. 28. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar. 32. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh. 33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC). 34. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else. 35. United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882). 36. A single splash. 37. Being of the age 13 through 19. 38. A full skirt with a gathered waistband. 39. The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is
pumped by the heart. 40. A cruel and brutal fellow. 42. (military) Signal to turn the lights out. 43. Activity involved in maintaining something
in good working order. 46. A shop where a variety of goods are sold. 51. Being the one previously mentioned or
spoken of. 52. Common house and field crickets. 53. A nation in northern North America. 55. A state in New England. 56. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (18281906). 57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a
skewer usually with vegetables. 60. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. 61. Used of the language of the deaf. 63. A small cake leavened with yeast. 64. An Arabic speaking person who lives in
Arabia or North Africa. 66. Of southern Europe. 67. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits. 68. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates. 71. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.