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1. Being one more than one.
4. The pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal.
12. The airforce of Great Britain.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Of or relating to or characterized by covalence.
17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
20. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
21. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
23. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
25. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
26. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
28. A state in northwestern North America.
29. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
32. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
36. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
37. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
38. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
40. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
44. The part of a coal seam that is being cut.
47. A rapid bustling commotion.
48. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
51. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
54. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
55. (Babylonian) The sky god.
56. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
57. (Roman Catholic) A greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist.
61. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
65. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
67. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
69. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
72. A small cake leavened with yeast.
73. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
77. A decree that prohibits something.
78. The seventh and last day of the week.
79. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
2. Something that remunerates.
3. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
4. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.
5. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
6. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
7. The mints.
8. Not tense or taut.
9. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
10. Not out.
11. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
12. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
13. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
14. Foul with waste matter.
22. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
24. An informal term for a father.
27. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
33. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
34. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
35. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
39. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
41. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
42. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
43. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
45. Inability to perceive written words.
46. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
49. A fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts).
50. Lacking stylishness or neatness.
52. Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson).
53. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
58. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
59. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. Slices of bread that have been toasted.
62. Jordan's port.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. Type genus of the Majidae.
68. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
70. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
71. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
74. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
76. A state in New England.
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