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1. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
4. An ache localized in the back.
12. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
16. A pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene.
17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
18. Abnormally enlarged thyroid gland.
20. Indigo bush.
21. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
22. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
24. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
26. Lean end of the neck.
27. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
29. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
32. Having three dimensions.
36. A radioactive mineral consisting of thorium silicate.
39. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
40. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
42. An Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland.
44. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
45. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
46. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
49. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
53. The seventh and last day of the week.
54. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
55. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
58. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
60. The capital city of Vietnam.
61. A sac-like widening of an artery.
66. A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving.
70. Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female.
72. Avatar of Vishnu.
73. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
74. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish.
76. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
77. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
78. A festival featuring African-American culture.
79. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
3. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
4. Of or relating to or containing barium.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
7. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
8. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
9. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
10. Step on it.
11. Order by virtue of superior authority.
12. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. A written proposal or reminder.
19. The first month of the civil year.
23. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
25. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
28. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
30. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
31. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
33. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
34. Depressing in character or appearance.
35. A pair of shoes with cleats on the soles.
37. Not out.
38. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
41. Come into existence.
43. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
47. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
48. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
50. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
51. A building used to house military personnel v 1.
52. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
57. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
59. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
62. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
63. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
64. The Destroyer.
65. Most important element.
67. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
68. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
69. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
71. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
75. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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