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1. Speaking a Slavic language.
5. A port town on the Atlantic coast of Portugal southeast of Lisbon.
12. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
15. A Loloish language.
16. Spread or diffuse through.
17. A rapid bustling commotion.
18. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
19. Shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials.
20. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
21. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
23. Bubble shells.
25. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
27. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Take away the weapons from.
39. Someone who tries to bring peace.
42. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
43. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
46. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
47. Plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem.
50. A flexible container with a single opening.
51. Give qualities or abilities to.
52. Elegant and stylish.
55. Based on or being a test of reading skill using the cloze procedure.
57. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
58. The capital of Western Samoa.
61. Having or covered with hair.
62. An informal term for a father.
66. French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836).
69. Someone who performs a service or does a favor.
70. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
71. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
74. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
75. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
76. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
77. A primeval personification of air and breath.
78. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
79. A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person).
80. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services.
2. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
3. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
4. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir.
5. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
6. Suggestive of the supernatural.
7. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
8. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
9. An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
10. A farewell remark.
11. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
13. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
14. Fail to keep or to maintain.
22. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
26. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
30. A negatively charged atom.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
33. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
37. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
38. Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap.
40. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
41. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
44. Unknown god.
45. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
48. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
49. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter.
53. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
54. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
56. A branch of the Tai languages.
59. The act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge.
60. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
64. The brightest star in Cygnus.
65. A particular environment or walk of life.
67. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
68. 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.
72. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
73. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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