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1. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
4. A long slender cigar.
12. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
15. A loud utterance.
16. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
19. Mark with a date, and often with a place, to, as of a newspaper article or a letter.
20. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
21. A lizard of the family Agamidae.
23. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
25. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
26. Make editorial changes (in a text).
27. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
28. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
30. 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).
35. (Bible) The archangel who was the messenger of God.
40. A low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat v 1.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
46. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
48. The sixth month of the civil year.
51. An informal conversation.
52. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
53. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
54. A genus of evergreen climbers.
56. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
58. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
59. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
60. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
61. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
70. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
73. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
75. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
77. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
78. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
79. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
80. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
3. The eighth month of the civil year.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. A port city in southwestern Iran.
6. Remaining after all deductions.
7. Administer an oil or ointment to.
8. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
9. Making lively and joyful.
10. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
11. Inquire about.
12. Big-eyed scad.
13. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
14. A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed.
22. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
24. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
29. Any of various units of capacity.
31. Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth.
32. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
33. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
34. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
36. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
37. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
38. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
39. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
41. Outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts).
42. 1 species.
43. In the Roman calendar.
47. French novelist.
49. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
50. Cleaning with a mop.
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. The basic unit of money on Malta.
63. A small nail.
65. A member of the British order of honor.
66. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
67. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
68. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
69. Not in action or at work.
71. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
72. Towards the side away from the wind.
74. The cry made by sheep.
76. A form of address for a man.
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