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1. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
4. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
11. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
15. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
16. Classification used for 5 species of terrestrial ferns usually placed in other genera.
17. (prefix) Half or partial.
18. A genus of Indriidae.
19. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
20. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
21. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
22. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
23. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
24. A dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland.
27. Used of locations.
29. Before noon.
31. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
32. The cry made by sheep.
33. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
34. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
40. (prefix) Within.
44. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
48. An ester of glycerol and palmitic acid.
51. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
52. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
54. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
57. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
61. A female giant.
65. Not subjected to an aging process.
66. A human limb.
67. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
70. Jordan's port.
71. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
72. Ninth month of the Revolutionary calendar (May and June).
74. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
75. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
76. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The basic unit of money in China.
2. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
3. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
4. Suitable for use as food.
5. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
6. Remove body hair.
7. Soft blue-gray mineral.
8. Metal shackles.
9. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
10. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
11. Type genus of the family Ostreidae.
12. Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974).
13. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
14. Of a pale purple color.
25. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
26. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
28. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
30. Wildly disordered.
35. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
36. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
37. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
38. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
39. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
41. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
42. Family based on male descent.
43. Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929).
45. Trade name for a drug containing an antihistamine and a decongestant.
46. Being one more than fifty.
47. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
49. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
50. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
53. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. United States baseball player (born 1925).
56. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
58. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
63. Type genus of the Amiidae.
64. The front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.
68. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
69. Being two more than fifty.
73. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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