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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.
11. Type genus of the Apidae.
15. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
16. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
17. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
18. Relatively deep or strong.
20. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
21. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
23. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
24. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
26. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
27. Any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods.
29. A caress with the lips.
31. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes.
32. Saw used with one hand for cutting metal.
36. Offensively malodorous.
40. (Welsh) A warrior god.
43. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
44. The fatty flesh of eel.
46. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
49. Become gelatinous.
50. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
52. Pale gray.
53. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
54. 1 species.
56. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
58. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
59. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
60. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
63. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
66. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
69. 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.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. Unable to meet financial obligations.
76. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
77. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
78. Any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers.
79. Turned or twisted toward one side.
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1. Father of the storm gods Marut.
2. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
3. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
4. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
5. Radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked.
6. Wild mango.
7. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.
8. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
9. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
10. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
14. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
19. Any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs.
22. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
25. A Loloish language.
28. Used in combination to denote the middle.
30. Capital of modern Macedonia.
33. (informal) Of the highest quality.
34. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
35. Large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf coasts.
37. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
38. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
39. Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended.
41. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb.
42. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. An exchange that occurs as a compromise.
47. Iranian religious leader of the Shiites.
48. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
51. A person who keeps watch over something or someone.
55. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
57. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
61. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
62. Softly bright or radiant.
64. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
65. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
67. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
68. A polite name for any woman.
70. God of the underworld.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
75. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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