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1. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
4. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
11. A French abbot.
15. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
16. A passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement.
17. A sudden short attack.
18. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
19. A person who speaks indistinctly.
20. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
21. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
24. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
25. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
28. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
29. To declare or affirm as true.
33. Strike with a flat object.
37. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
38. One million periods per second.
39. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
40. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
41. God of wealth and love.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. A radioactive transuranic element.
46. Of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband.
47. The brightest star in Orion.
50. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
51. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
54. A three-tone Chadic language.
60. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
64. Annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers.
66. The cry made by sheep.
67. Someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination).
70. A master's degree in business.
71. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
72. A rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached.
73. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
74. An informal term for a father.
75. In spots.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
2. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
3. Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
4. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
5. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
6. (prefix) Half or partial.
7. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
8. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
9. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
10. A port in southwestern Scotland.
11. A large fleet.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
14. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
22. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
23. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
26. 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.
27. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
30. A Russian river.
31. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
32. Of power or authority.
34. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
35. Very slow in tempo and broad in manner n.
36. A deliberately false or improbable account.
42. A desert in central Asia.
43. A burst of deep loud hearty laughter.
48. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
49. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
52. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
53. Bright and pleasant.
55. Being or given to servile imitation.
56. Supporting yourself on your knees.
57. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
61. God of death.
62. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
63. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
65. The basic unit of money in Peru.
68. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
69. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
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