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1. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
4. Someone who expresses in language.
11. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. Individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell.
17. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
18. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
19. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
20. (anatomy) Exhibiting ectopia.
21. Sheep with long wool originating in the Cotswolds.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
24. Have supper.
25. A person trained to compete in sports.
28. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
29. Any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red.
32. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
43. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
44. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
45. Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness.
48. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
50. Largest crested screamer.
51. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
52. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
53. Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.
55. Small Old and New World herons.
57. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
58. An associate degree in nursing.
59. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
76. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
77. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
78. 1 species.
79. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. A person of subnormal intelligence.
3. The event of dying or departure from life.
4. Cooked in hot water.
5. The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place.
6. Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
7. In bed.
8. Unknown god.
9. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
10. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
11. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
12. Perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.
13. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
14. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
22. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. Undo the belt of.
31. 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.
33. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
34. A stringed instrument of India.
35. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
38. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
39. Squash bugs.
40. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
41. An unforeseen obstacle.
42. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
46. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
47. Lacking professional skill or expertise.
49. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
54. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. Anything that serves as an enticement.
62. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
63. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
64. Being one more than seven.
66. Set down according to a plan.
67. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
70. Of southern Europe.
71. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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