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1. Little known Kamarupan languages.
5. Atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. Not widely known.
16. A source of materials to nourish the body.
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
18. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
19. Make dull or stupid.
20. The ending of a series or sequence.
22. The cry made by sheep.
24. Avatar of Vishnu.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed.
31. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
34. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
35. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
38. Jordan's port.
39. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
42. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
43. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
48. An image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels.
51. By bad luck.
52. The habitation of wild animals.
53. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
54. Capable of being tamed.
59. A small hard fruit.
60. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
61. The longest division of geological time.
62. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
65. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
68. A quantity of no importance.
71. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
72. A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa.
75. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
76. A newt in its terrestrial stage of development.
77. Certainty based on past experience.
78. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
79. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
80. Having few if any teeth.
81. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
4. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
5. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
6. Of the common people of ancient Rome.
7. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
9. A thermionic tube having four electrodes.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
13. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
23. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. An informal term for a father.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. A constellation in the Milky Way near Cygnus.
33. Very small.
36. Coextensive with the family Punicaceae.
37. Sweetened milk or cream mixed with eggs and usually alcoholic liquor.
40. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
41. (zoology) Having freedom to move about.
45. Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. A part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction.
49. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
50. Blood-sucking African fly.
55. Be on one's guard.
56. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
57. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
58. Relatively small gnawing animals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing.
63. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
64. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
66. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
67. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
69. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
74. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
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