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1. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
4. The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed.
12. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
15. Something that remunerates.
16. Round-tailed muskrat.
17. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. An informal conversation.
20. Enthusiastic approval.
22. German hero.
24. United States poet (1885-1928).
25. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. The act of scanning.
29. Coffee trees.
37. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
38. God of love and erotic desire.
41. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
42. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
46. Method or manner of conduct in relation to others.
48. Used of a single unit or thing.
49. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
50. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
54. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
61. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
63. Leader of a group or festival.
66. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
70. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
71. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
73. An oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels.
74. A human limb.
77. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
78. Seed of a pea plant.
79. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
80. A doctor's degree in education.
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1. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
2. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
3. The eighth month of the civil year.
4. Enclose in, or as if in, a case "my feet were encased in mud.".
5. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
6. An Italian woman of rank.
7. Not in operation or operational.
8. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
9. The superior of a group of nuns.
10. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
11. Existing or belonging to a time before a war.
12. Something that resembles a pill in shape or size.
13. The basic unit of money in China.
14. Be foolish or senile due to old age.
21. Type genus of the Cynipidae.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
30. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
31. Foul with waste matter.
32. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
33. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
34. The capital of Nationalist China.
35. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
36. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
39. The month following July and preceding September.
40. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
43. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
44. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
45. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
47. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
51. One million periods per second.
52. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
53. A hat that is round and black and hard with a narrow brim.
55. A roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building.
56. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
57. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
58. Informal terms for a mother.
59. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
60. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
65. Used of the language of the deaf.
67. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
68. A short personal letter.
69. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
72. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
75. A person forced to flee from home or country.
76. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
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