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1. A light informal meal.
5. Covered with scabs.
11. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
15. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
16. Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC).
17. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
18. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
19. A bachelor's degree in science.
21. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
22. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
23. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
26. Music in triple time for dancing the landler.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. A telegram sent abroad.
36. A notable achievement.
39. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
45. An Italian poet famous for `The Divine Comedy'--a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321).
49. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
50. Squash bugs.
51. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. Italian film actress (born in 1934).
55. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
57. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
65. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
67. The academic world.
70. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
74. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
75. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
76. A driver who exceeds the safe speed limit.
78. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
79. The capital and largest city of Japan.
80. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
81. A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans.
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1. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
2. A drama set to music.
3. A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.
4. God of dawn and light.
5. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
6. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.
7. An associate degree in nursing.
8. Top part of an apron.
9. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
10. A Loloish language.
11. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
12. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
13. Tropical Asian starlings.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
20. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
27. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
28. Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.
29. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
33. An oil port in southern Iraq.
34. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
35. Any plant of the genus Erica.
37. A city of central China.
38. Of or relating to punishment.
40. A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area.
43. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
44. The froth produced by soaps or detergents.
46. A Formosan language.
47. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
48. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
54. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
56. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
58. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
60. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
61. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
62. Affect with wonder.
63. A stringed instrument of India.
64. (Scotland) A landowner.
66. (prefix) Outside or outer.
68. A city in northern India.
69. Make an etching of.
71. Inquire about.
72. The habitation of wild animals.
73. A yearning for something or to do something.
77. An informal term for a father.
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