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1. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
4. Of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess.
12. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
15. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
16. Admitting of bail.
17. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
18. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
20. Move the upper body backwards and down.
22. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
24. Small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears.
25. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
27. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
28. A festival featuring African-American culture.
31. Commit forever.
35. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
37. A landlocked republic in central Africa.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
43. Being three more than forty.
45. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
47. Thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal.
48. Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing.
50. A state in New England.
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
54. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
56. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
57. A master's degree in fine arts.
58. Capital of modern Macedonia.
63. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. Mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits.
69. Put to use.
71. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
72. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
73. Disappear gradually.
75. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
76. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
77. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
78. Being one more than ninety.
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1. A Russian river.
2. (Greek mythology) God of love.
3. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
4. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
7. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
8. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
9. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
10. Dependent on chance.
11. A genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae.
12. Armor plate that protects the chest.
13. A Loloish language.
14. To run away.
19. (prefix) Across or crossing or on the opposite side.
21. The sacred city of Lamaism.
23. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
26. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
29. (India) Usually in combination.
30. Look forward to the probably occurrence of.
32. Afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement.
33. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
34. 1 species.
36. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
39. The face of a timepiece.
40. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
41. Any thick messy substance.
44. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
46. The fifth month of the Hindu calendar.
49. French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829).
53. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
55. English philologist (1835-1912).
59. The muscular back part of the shank.
60. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
61. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
62. The number of opening per inch of a screen.
64. A mythical Greek hero.
65. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
66. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
68. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
70. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
74. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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