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1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. Fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers.
12. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Of or relating to the United States of America or its people or language or culture.
17. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
18. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.
20. A city of central Sri Lanka that was the last capital of the ancient kings of Ceylon.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
26. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
28. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
30. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
31. Being nine more than forty.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
36. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
38. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
39. Minor or subordinate.
42. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
45. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
47. A city in southwestern California east of Los Angeles.
51. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
53. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
54. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
57. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
60. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. (India) The driver and keeper of an elephant.
65. An act punishable by law.
71. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
73. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
74. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
75. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
77. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
78. Informal terms for a meal.
79. A festival featuring African-American culture.
80. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
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1. Fallow deer.
2. Advanced in years.
3. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
4. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
5. Type genus of the Amiidae.
6. Involving the mind or an intellectual process.
7. Blue sharks.
8. An expression of greeting.
9. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
10. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
11. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
12. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
13. (often plural) A command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed.
14. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
19. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
21. A church associated with a monastery or convent.
24. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
25. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. Remove the claws from (a cat).
32. Open to change.
35. 16 ounces.
37. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
40. Tropical Asian starlings.
41. A cloth having a crisscross design.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. Type genus of the Nepidae.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
50. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
56. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
58. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
59. Become dark or darker.
63. United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919).
64. A city in central New York.
66. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
67. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
68. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
69. A Russian river.
70. In or of the present month.
72. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
76. A state in midwestern United States.
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