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1. Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to.
4. The wife of a sheik.
11. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
17. Great in vertical dimension.
18. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
20. A streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine.
22. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).
23. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
25. Music composed for dancing the pavane.
26. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
27. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
29. A white trivalent metallic element.
31. Exalt to the skies.
35. A member of the South American Indian people living in Brazil and Paraguay.
38. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
39. The specified day of the month.
41. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
42. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
45. Failing to detonate.
46. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
49. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
51. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
54. East Indian annual erect herb.
57. Fail to keep or to maintain.
58. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
59. A slender double-reed instrument.
60. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
63. British informal.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
69. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
70. Octopuses and paper nautilus.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
78. An associate degree in applied science.
79. True fungi.
80. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. Informal terms for a mother.
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
4. A Dardic language spoken in northern Kashmir.
5. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
6. Convert ordinary language into code.
7. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
8. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
9. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Cooked in steam.
12. Herbs and subshrubs.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
19. A city in north-central India.
21. An accountant certified by the state.
24. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
28. Type genus of the Hylidae.
30. A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles.
32. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
33. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901).
34. A night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep.
36. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
37. Widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers.
40. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. Jordan's port.
48. Relating to or associated with a coma.
50. Indigo bush.
52. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
53. Edit and correct (written or printed material).
55. A collection of resources.
56. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
61. The content of cognition.
62. Type genus of the Apidae.
64. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
66. Set down according to a plan.
67. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
71. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
72. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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