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1. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
4. A short sleeveless undergarment for women.
12. Seed of a pea plant.
15. (British) Your grandmother.
16. Someone who puts to good use.
17. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
18. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
19. (botany) Tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed.
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
22. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
24. Provided or reinforced with gussets.
26. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
27. Enclose in, or as if in, a case "my feet were encased in mud.".
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
30. French composer who is said to have created impressionism in music (1862-1918).
33. A bachelor's degree in science.
35. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
39. Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended.
40. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
42. The emotion of hate.
44. In operation or operational.
45. The cry made by sheep.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
53. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
60. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
62. 16 ounces.
68. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
72. Any high mountain.
73. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
74. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
75. (informal) Of the highest quality.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. A colorless poisonous gas.
78. A local computer network for communication between computers.
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1. (Welsh myth) The other world.
2. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
3. Having removed clothing.
4. (British) A cup of tea.
5. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
6. Obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity.
7. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
8. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
9. Any fern of the genus Osmunda.
10. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
11. Capable of having having clear evidence of eliminated without trace.
12. A woman poet.
13. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
23. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
25. Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs.
31. An enthusiastic kiss.
32. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
34. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
36. An associate degree in nursing.
37. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
38. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
41. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
43. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
46. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
47. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
48. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
50. Advanced in years.
54. A Russian river.
55. A sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer.
57. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
58. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
59. Of or relating to or involving an area.
61. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
63. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
64. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
65. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
67. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
69. Informal terms for a mother.
70. Water frozen in the solid state.
71. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
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