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1. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
5. Boas and pythons.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
15. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
16. The capital of Eritrea.
17. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
18. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
19. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
20. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
21. Small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods.
24. Young domestic cat.
25. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
28. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
29. Small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
36. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
38. Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail.
39. A port in southwestern Scotland.
40. Found along western Atlantic coast.
44. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
45. (chemistry) Relating to or containing an alkali.
46. An endorsement.
47. A dyed fabric.
49. Goddess of fertility.
50. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
55. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
59. A genus of Ploceidae.
64. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. Inclined to waste time and lag behind.
73. The month following February and preceding April.
74. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
75. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
76. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
77. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
78. A great raja.
79. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. An orderly pile.
2. The capital city of Vietnam.
3. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
4. A city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior.
5. Small smooth-haired breed of African origin having a tightly curled tail and the inability to bark.
6. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
7. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
8. An imperfection in a bodily system.
9. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
10. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
11. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. The season when the leaves fall from the trees.
14. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
22. As much as a teacup will hold.
23. Supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu.
26. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
27. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
30. Somewhat late.
31. Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya.
32. The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).
34. Stopping short and refusing to go on.
35. A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river).
37. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
41. Cut the head of.
42. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
43. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
53. Any of several compounds of barium.
56. A woman of refinement.
57. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. In bed.
61. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
62. A quantity of no importance.
63. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
65. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
66. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
67. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
70. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
71. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
72. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
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