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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese.
11. A wine bottle made of leather.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944).
17. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
20. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
22. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
23. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
27. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
30. A person who eats human flesh.
33. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.
36. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
37. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
39. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
41. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
42. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
43. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
44. Having leadership guidance.
49. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.).
51. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
54. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
56. Any of various units of capacity.
58. An expression of greeting.
63. English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766).
65. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
67. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
70. Armor plate that protects the head.
71. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
73. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
74. A strong emotion.
75. A refuge from attack.
77. A human limb.
78. (Roman Catholic) A greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist.
79. Having or being distinguished by diminutive size.
80. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
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1. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Cry plaintively.
4. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water.
5. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
6. Water buffalo of the Philippines.
7. (informal) Of the highest quality.
8. Be foolish or senile due to old age.
9. Water frozen in the solid state.
10. A state in northwestern North America.
11. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
12. Dragonflies and damselflies.
13. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
14. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
19. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
21. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
26. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
28. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
29. A place of worship that has its own altar.
31. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
32. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
34. The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
35. The capital of Nationalist China.
38. An informal term for a father.
45. A flaw or weak point.
46. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
47. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. Take away the weapons from.
52. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
55. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
57. German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992).
59. A character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter.
60. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
61. Delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores.
62. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
64. A three-tone Chadic language.
66. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. Young sheep.
72. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
76. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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