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1. The month following February and preceding April.
4. Type genus of the family Elephantidae.
11. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Type genus of the Balaenidae.
17. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
18. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
20. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
21. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
22. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
24. A state in northwestern North America.
26. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
27. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
28. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. Selected as the best.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
42. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
43. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).
45. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
46. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. The seventh month of the civil year.
54. Evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries.
56. (prefix) Outside or outer.
58. (Scot) A leather strap for punishing children.
60. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
64. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
67. A caustic substance (Ca(OH)2) produced by heating limestone.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979).
74. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
75. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
76. Being directly across from each other.
79. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
80. A doctor's degree in education.
81. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
82. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
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1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
2. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
3. A Hindu prince or king in India.
4. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. A genus of Carangidae.
7. A promise.
8. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
9. Used of a single unit or thing.
10. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
11. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
12. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
13. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
14. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
19. Anneal or toughen by a process of gradually heating and cooling.
23. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
33. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
36. Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace).
37. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
38. A grant made by a law court.
39. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
40. God of love and erotic desire.
41. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
48. Again but in a new or different way.
50. Of a light grayish-brown color n.
51. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
53. Of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages.
55. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
57. Unhurried and relaxed.
59. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
61. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
62. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
63. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
65. A female domestic.
66. In bed.
68. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
69. Type genus of the Majidae.
72. The month following March and preceding May.
73. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
77. An informal term for a father.
78. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
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