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1. Using speech rather than writing.
5. Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.
12. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
15. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
16. Covered with paving material.
17. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
18. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
19. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
20. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. A unit of pressure.
23. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
28. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
30. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
31. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
33. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
36. A state in New England.
38. United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951).
42. Any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas.
46. Make less active or intense.
47. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
48. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
50. Slightly open.
51. A member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario.
52. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
53. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
54. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
61. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
69. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
70. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
73. A sudden unexpected piece of good fortune.
74. Type genus of the Majidae.
75. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
77. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
78. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
79. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
80. The number of opening per inch of a screen.
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1. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
2. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The basic unit of money on Malta.
5. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
6. Hostile or belligerent mood.
7. A permanent council of the United Nations.
8. Procumbent or spreading juniper.
9. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
10. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
11. Web spinners.
12. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
13. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
14. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
24. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
26. Ground snakes.
27. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
29. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
32. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
34. Talk pompously.
35. Like or full of suet.
37. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
39. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
40. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
41. The third canonical hour.
43. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
56. 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.
57. Wild ginger.
58. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
59. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
60. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
62. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
63. A Hindu prince or king in India.
64. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
65. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
66. The central area of a church.
67. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
68. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.
76. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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