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1. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
4. Sexually abused.
12. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
15. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
16. Using a pronoun or other pro-word instead of repeating a word.
17. A master's degree in education.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
20. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. Largest crested screamer.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
26. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
27. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
29. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
36. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
39. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
41. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
44. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
45. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
46. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
47. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
48. An operating system that is on a disk.
49. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
51. The mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations.
54. Half the width of an em.
56. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
58. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
60. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
61. Jordan's port.
65. 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.
69. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.
73. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
74. An island in Antigua and Barbuda.
76. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
77. A city of central China.
78. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
79. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
3. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
4. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
5. Used of a single unit or thing.
6. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
7. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
8. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
9. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. A light touch or stroke.
12. To fix or set securely or deeply.
13. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
14. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
21. A port city in southwestern Iran.
23. The part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm.
28. One who works hard at boring tasks.
30. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
31. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
32. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
33. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. King of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839).
35. Constituting or relating to a tail.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
40. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
42. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
43. South African term for `boss'.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
53. Any plant of the genus Erica.
55. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
57. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
59. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
62. Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India.
63. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
64. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
66. Type genus of the Anatidae.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
68. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
70. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
71. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
72. An enclosed space.
75. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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