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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
5. A bony hollow into which a structure fits.
11. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
15. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
16. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained.
17. The capital of Western Samoa.
18. A town in north central Oklahoma.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
21. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
23. That is to say.
24. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
26. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
28. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
31. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
34. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
35. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
38. East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan.
41. A large indefinite number.
43. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
46. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
47. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
49. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
53. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
54. The academic world.
56. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
66. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
68. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
71. A branch of the Tai languages.
72. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
76. Not in good physical or mental health.
77. Capital and largest city of Bosnia.
79. A light touch or stroke.
80. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
81. A hiding place.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Used in combination.
2. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
3. Relating to or characteristic of Jainism.
4. The southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah.
5. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
6. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
7. Of superior grade.
8. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
9. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
10. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
11. The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.
12. Twining perennial North American plants.
13. Water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs.
14. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
22. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
29. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
30. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
32. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
33. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
36. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
37. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
39. 16 ounces.
40. A fraudulent business scheme.
42. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
44. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
50. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
55. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
58. French film maker influenced by surrealism.
59. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
61. A telegram sent abroad.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
63. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Jordan's port.
67. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
69. A Hindu prince or king in India.
70. Again but in a new or different way.
73. The residue that remains when something is burned.
74. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
75. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.
78. A state in the eastern United States.
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