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1. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
4. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
12. 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).
15. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
16. Egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow.
17. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
18. An athlete who competes at jumping.
20. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
21. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
22. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
24. A river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean.
25. A small skullcap.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
28. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
31. A town in central Belgium.
35. Find repugnant.
41. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
43. A record in which commercial accounts are recorded.
44. Inability to make purposeful movements.
47. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
48. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
49. Produced by living organisms or biological processes.
50. On or toward the lee.
54. The small projection of a mammary gland.
55. A deity or nymph of the woods.
61. A person with albinism.
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
70. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
71. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
72. Rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey.
74. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
75. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
76. Of or relating to a taxonomic order.
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant.
3. A punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence.
4. (used informally) Very small.
5. A city in northern India.
6. 1/1000 gram.
7. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
8. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
9. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
10. Not alike or similar.
11. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
12. Muslim name for God.
13. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
14. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
19. (Greek mythology) The first woman.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. Any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as.
30. Excessively agitated.
32. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
33. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
34. The fourth of the seven canonical hours.
36. Being one more than twelve.
37. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
38. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
39. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
40. Upright in position or posture.
42. A state in midwestern United States.
45. 36th President of the United States.
46. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
51. Suitable for use as food.
52. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
57. A cruel and brutal fellow.
58. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
59. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
60. Of or in or relating to the nose.
62. The habitation of wild animals.
63. Brought into existence.
64. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
65. Largest known toad species.
66. Avatar of Vishnu.
67. The sixth month of the civil year.
69. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
73. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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