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1. Informal terms for clothing.
5. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
12. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
15. On, to, or at the top.
16. Boas of western North America.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
20. A nitrogenous substance found in mucous secretions.
21. The basic unit of money in Albania.
22. (of spatial position) In or brought into line with or into proper relative position.
23. A master's degree in business.
24. Lower in esteem.
26. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
28. Indigo bush.
29. A genus of Platalea.
33. Extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit.
36. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
38. A compact mass.
42. Be obliged to pay or repay.
43. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
45. A member of a North American Indian people living in central Baja California.
47. Beneath the surface of the sea.
49. The month following February and preceding April.
50. (music) A notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated.
51. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
54. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
55. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
58. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic.
61. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
62. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
69. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
70. Morning glory.
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
74. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
77. Being here now.
78. African antelopes.
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
2. Being of use or service.
3. Motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.
4. A German machine gun.
5. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
6. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
7. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
8. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
9. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
10. Black tropical American cuckoo.
11. A nation in northern North America.
12. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
13. Excessively fat.
14. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
19. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
25. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
27. A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate.
30. A mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
31. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
32. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
34. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.
35. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
37. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
39. The greatest possible degree of something.
40. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
44. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
46. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
48. Half the width of an em.
52. A reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs.
53. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
56. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
57. Shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort).
59. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
60. Satisfy (thirst).
63. Great merriment.
64. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
65. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits.
66. A Hindu prince or king in India.
67. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
68. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
71. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
72. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
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