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1. Enlarged prostate.
4. Any expected deliverer.
11. Using speech rather than writing.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932).
17. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
21. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
26. Type genus of the Anatidae.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
29. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
31. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
38. A republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean.
39. Late time of life.
41. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
42. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
45. A bar of sand.
48. Fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region.
51. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
52. A person who lives in the dales of Northern England.
55. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
57. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
60. In the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie.
64. Order by virtue of superior authority.
66. Cut down with an ax.
70. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
71. The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves.
73. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
74. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
75. Of or relating to tension.
77. A Loloish language.
78. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
79. Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
80. Praise, glorify, or honor.
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1. An indistinct shapeless form.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
4. 1/1000 gram.
5. At a previous time.
6. A town in central Kansas.
7. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. Before noon.
10. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
11. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
12. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
13. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
14. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
19. An oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract of urinary tract or bones or joints.
24. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. A body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
33. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
34. (Brit) An area of open or forested country.
35. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
36. Not having been read.
37. A genus of Sterninae.
40. A province in north-central China.
43. Of or relating to or involving an area.
44. A formal expression of praise.
46. Little known Kamarupan languages.
47. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
49. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
50. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
53. A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat.
54. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
58. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
59. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
61. (Judeo-Christian religion) Chief spirit of evil and adversary of God.
62. Not out.
63. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
65. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
67. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
68. A Loloish language.
69. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
72. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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