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1. Fastened with stitches.
5. A movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation.
12. Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government.
15. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
16. Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I.
17. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
18. Boas and pythons.
20. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
23. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
25. Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet.
27. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
29. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
30. At full speed.
34. A metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters.
41. Any member of a ship's crew.
45. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
46. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
47. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
48. A bar of sand.
50. Pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves).
52. Used of a single unit or thing.
53. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
54. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
55. A reason for wanting something done.
57. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
59. A membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. A Loloish language.
71. A republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean.
72. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
75. Having leadership guidance.
76. The basic unit of money in Romania.
77. A great raja.
78. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
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1. The oily secretion of the sebaceous glands.
2. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
3. A card game for four players who form two partnerships.
4. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
5. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
6. A state in midwestern United States.
7. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
8. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
9. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried.
10. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
11. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
12. The fourth month of the civil year.
13. By bad luck.
14. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
28. A doctor's degree in optometry.
31. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
32. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
33. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
35. A language group of the Hokan family.
36. English writer of stories for children (1882-1956).
37. Perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves.
38. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
39. Before noon.
40. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
42. A boy or man.
43. The distance around a person's body.
44. The twelfth month of the civil year.
49. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
51. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
56. Top part of an apron.
58. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
60. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
61. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
62. Offering fun and gaiety.
63. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
64. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
65. Among the largest bony fish.
66. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
67. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
70. The month following March and preceding May.
73. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
74. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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