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1. A short theatrical episode.
5. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
12. An accidental happening.
15. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
16. The unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Submersible vessel for one or two persons.
19. A hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk.
21. Again but in a new or different way.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
25. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
27. The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit.
30. Tag the base runner to get him out.
32. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
35. A unit of pressure.
38. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
40. Informal terms for a mother.
41. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
43. The father of your father or mother.
45. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
46. A manner of performance.
47. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
51. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
52. A branch of the Tai languages.
53. A primeval personification of air and breath.
54. Impairment resulting from long use.
57. A very light brown.
60. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
63. Protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior.
66. Trained in a skill by repetitious practice.
70. A column of light (as from a beacon).
71. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
76. Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age.
77. Characteristic of a mob.
78. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
79. Type genus of the Plataleidae.
80. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Wood of a sumac.
2. United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962).
3. Located inward.
4. A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong.
5. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. A state in the eastern United States.
8. A state in northwestern North America.
9. British informal term.
10. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
11. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
12. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
13. American novelist (1909-1955).
14. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
20. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
23. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
28. The expensive white fur of the ermine.
29. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
31. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
34. Genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha.
36. A very short time (as the time it takes to blink once).
37. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
39. A bachelor's degree in religion.
42. A Hindu religious teacher.
44. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
48. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
49. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
50. Obvious and dull.
55. A republic in northeastern South America.
56. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
58. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
59. A row of unravelled stitches.
61. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic.
62. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
64. Characteristic of false pride.
65. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
67. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
68. Very dark black.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
73. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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