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1. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
5. Any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
15. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
16. African antelopes.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. A young unmarried woman.
20. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
21. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
22. In bed.
24. A state in the eastern United States.
25. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
30. Strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile.
33. A deficiency of red blood cells.
37. A human limb.
38. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
39. Any loose flowing garment.
40. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
43. How long something has existed.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. The Spanish Navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719).
48. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
50. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
51. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
52. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
53. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
56. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
58. Lower in esteem.
60. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
62. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
64. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
66. The capital of Croatia.
70. A genus of Malayan tree.
73. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. That can be given a date.
77. Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.
78. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
79. An obsolete kind of container used for distillation.
80. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
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1. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
2. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. Some point in the air.
5. A brilliant solo passage occuring near the end of a piece of music.
6. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
7. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
8. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
9. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia.
10. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
11. A member of the tribe of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century AD.
12. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
13. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
14. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
23. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
26. Decorative evergreen shrubs of woody vines.
27. Battle of World War II (1944).
28. English monk and scholar (672-735).
29. A histamine blocker and antacid (trade name Zantac) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux.
31. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
32. A Russian river.
34. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens.
35. Old World herbs and subshrubs.
36. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
41. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
42. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. Impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission.
49. Ritual hand movement in Hindu religious dancing.
54. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
55. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
57. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
59. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
61. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
63. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
65. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
67. Avatar of Vishnu.
68. Very dark black.
69. Common Indian weaverbird.
71. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
72. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
76. Before noon.
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