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1. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
4. Of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess.
12. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
15. The act of using.
16. A bin for holding coal.
17. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
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 rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together.
20. A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
22. The capital and largest city of Japan.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
28. A genus of Indriidae.
31. A symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose.
34. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
37. Characteristic of the classical artistic and literary traditions.
41. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
42. Someone who tells a story.
45. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
46. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
48. Of southern United States.
50. Unable to relax or be still.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. Of or relating to or consisting of enol.
54. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
59. A state in the western United States.
63. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
70. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
72. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
73. A doctor's degree in education.
74. Goat grass.
76. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
77. A column of light (as from a beacon).
78. A family of birds of the suborder Oscines.
79. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
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1. A bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance.
2. A genus of European owls.
3. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
4. The outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade.
5. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
6. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
7. United States painter born in Germany.
8. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
9. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
12. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
13. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
14. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
21. True firs.
23. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
27. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
29. Leave voluntarily.
30. Ludicrously odd.
32. (prefix) Outside or outer.
33. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
35. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
36. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
38. Small cold-water silvery fish.
39. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
40. A hidden drawback.
43. The seed of the cereal grass.
44. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
47. Crested screamers.
49. The state of being unsure of something.
51. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
56. Commercially important fish of the North American Pacific coast.
57. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
60. After the expected or usual time.
61. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
62. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
64. A quantity of no importance.
65. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
66. A compact mass.
67. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
68. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
69. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
71. Estrangement from god.
75. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
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