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1. Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324).
5. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
12. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
15. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
16. A chief officer or chief magistrate.
17. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
18. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
19. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
20. A city of central China.
22. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
24. A three-tone Chadic language.
25. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
34. A member of the British order of honor.
35. A tall upright megalith.
39. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
42. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
45. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or the keel of a ship.
46. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
47. Young sheep.
48. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
49. (informal) Roused to anger.
53. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. Informal terms for a mother.
57. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
62. German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992).
64. A major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
72. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
73. Scottish theologian who founded Scottish Presbyterianism and wrote a history of the reformation in Scotland (1514-1572).
74. Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520).
76. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
77. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
78. A festival featuring African-American culture.
79. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. Being three more than fifty.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
6. A person who delivers a speech or oration.
7. The person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality.
8. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
12. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
13. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
14. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. A meeting of spiritualists.
23. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
27. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
30. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
32. Grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units.
33. Having help.
36. Ground snakes.
37. (medieval legends) The bride of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other.
38. A night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep.
40. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
41. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
43. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
44. An informal term for a father.
50. A small nail.
51. The act of scanning.
52. Goddess of love and fecundity.
54. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
56. A city in central southwestern Iran.
58. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
59. Large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage.
60. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
61. Little known Kamarupan languages.
63. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
65. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
66. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
70. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
71. An accountant certified by the state.
75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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