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1. Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water.
4. Arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair.
11. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
17. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.
20. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
21. A genus of Stichaeidae.
23. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
25. A lamellar mixture of cementite and ferrite formed during the cooling of austenite.
26. Low tufted white-woolly yellow-flowered herb of California.
27. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
28. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
30. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
35. A state in midwestern United States.
36. Open and observable.
37. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
39. Lie adjacent to another.
42. The compass point midway between south and west.
43. A doctor's degree in religion.
44. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
46. Goddess of fate.
47. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
57. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
58. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
60. A small cake leavened with yeast.
61. A city in southeastern South Korea.
65. Full of zest or vigor.
69. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
70. Cut the head of.
73. (Babylonian) God of fire.
74. A local computer network for communication between computers.
75. A large ax with a broad cutting blade.
77. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
78. The products of human creativity.
79. A colorless oily liquid.
80. A French abbot.
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1. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
2. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
3. National capital of Kiribati.
4. A radioactive transuranic element.
5. Being one more than seventeen.
6. (informal) Of the highest quality.
7. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
8. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
9. A fit of shivering.
10. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
11. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
12. A Loloish language.
13. Lie adjacent to another.
14. Having or prompted by wisdom or discernment.
19. Textiles or clothing and related merchandise.
22. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
24. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
29. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
31. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
32. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
33. A city in northwestern Turkey.
34. Covered with beads of liquid.
38. Informal terms for a mother.
40. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
41. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc.
51. The wife or widow of a czar.
53. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901).
54. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
56. A port city in southwestern Iran.
59. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
62. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
63. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
64. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
67. Baby bed with high sides.
68. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
71. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
72. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
76. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
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