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1. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
4. Decreasing in amount or intensity.
11. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. Coextensive with the order Pholidota.
17. Relating to the Urdu language.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. (often used in combination) Having hair as specified.
20. A formal expression of praise.
21. Jordan's port.
23. A Nilotic language.
25. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
26. A native of ancient Troy.
27. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
28. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
30. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
35. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
38. A person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry.
41. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. Either extremity of something that has length.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. Using speech rather than writing.
47. A gene that causes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
54. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
55. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
57. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
59. Used of a single unit or thing.
61. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
65. A complex of concurrent things.
68. Fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat.
70. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
71. (usually in the plural) A garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately.
74. A telegram sent abroad.
75. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
76. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
80. The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected.
81. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
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1. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. Covered with paving material.
4. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
7. The capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country.
8. In the Roman calendar.
9. A quantity of no importance.
10. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
11. Wild llama.
12. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. A ridge of sand created by the wind.
22. The capital of Mali.
24. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
29. An outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles.
31. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
32. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
33. 100 penni equal 1 markka.
34. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
36. Lower in esteem.
37. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
39. Anything that covers or conceals.
40. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
43. An implement used to erase something.
48. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
49. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
51. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
53. Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas.
56. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. Affect with wonder.
62. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
63. Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage.
64. Upright in position or posture.
66. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
67. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
69. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
72. The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.
73. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
77. A state in east central United States.
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