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1. A primeval personification of air and breath.
5. Arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair.
12. Inquire about.
15. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
16. Small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings.
17. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
18. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
20. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation.
21. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
22. A trade language widely used in Chad.
24. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
25. The process of exposing to air (so as to purify).
28. Petty quarrel.
31. Of or relating to the island or republic of Malta or its inhabitants.
33. Heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs.
36. Instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement.
40. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
41. Be going to.
45. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
46. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
48. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
51. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
52. At full speed.
54. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
56. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
58. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
60. A short heavy curved sword with one edge.
62. The basic unit of money in Finland.
66. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
70. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
73. A master's degree in business.
74. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor.
75. Dry red Italian table wine from the Chianti region of Tuscany.
77. A decree that prohibits something.
78. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
79. (of hair) Made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
2. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
3. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
4. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
5. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
6. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
7. Sacred text of Zoroastrianism.
8. A state in New England.
9. Express or state indirectly.
10. (of spatial position) In or brought into line with or into proper relative position.
11. Someone new to a field or activity.
12. A genus of Platalea.
13. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
14. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
19. (informal) Of the highest quality.
23. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
26. Before noon.
27. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
29. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama.
30. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
32. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
34. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
35. The fifth day of the week.
37. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
38. A very light brown.
39. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. The sacred city of Lamaism.
44. All of the words in a language.
47. Antibiotic (trade name Lincocin) obtained from a Streptomyces bacterium and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections.
49. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
50. Spread or diffuse through.
53. An intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls.
55. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
57. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
59. Used of decomposing oils or fats.
61. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
63. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
68. Type genus of the Nepidae.
69. A coil of rope or wool or yarn.
71. Being one more than two.
72. An enclosed space.
76. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
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