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1. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
5. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
12. A master's degree in fine arts.
15. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. An inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others.
17. Any high mountain.
18. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
19. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
20. An island of central Hawaii.
22. The present time or age.
24. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
25. The ending of a series or sequence.
26. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
27. A humorous anecdote or remark.
29. Very rich drop friedcake dusted with confectioners' sugar and served with lemon sauce or preserves.
32. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
35. (informal) Very good.
38. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
40. A period of time spent sleeping.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
44. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
45. A genus of Mustelidae.
47. The process of leaching.
49. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
51. Type genus of Geastraceae.
53. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
56. Having a feeling of home.
57. Inability to urinate.
59. Before noon.
61. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
66. Remove the claws from (a cat).
68. A cunning or deceitful action or device.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. A genus of European owls.
72. Of a cask or barrel.
74. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
75. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
76. A festival featuring African-American culture.
77. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. Italian physicist after whom the volt is named.
2. Twining perennial North American plants.
3. Having been read.
4. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
5. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
6. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
7. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
8. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
9. Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. A thermoplastic polyamide.
12. French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883).
13. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
14. The capital of Western Samoa.
21. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
23. An expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing.
28. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
30. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
31. Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits.
33. An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints.
34. Hot or warm and humid.
36. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
37. Large Indian antelope.
39. Arm again.
42. 10 grams.
43. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
46. An oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina.
48. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
50. Any plant of the genus Inula.
52. The wife of a sheik.
54. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
55. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
58. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
60. The number of opening per inch of a screen.
62. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
63. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
64. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
65. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
67. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
69. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
73. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
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