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1. A beckoning gesture.
5. Filled to capacity.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
15. Beside one another in a row or rank.
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
18. The basic unit of money on Malta.
19. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
20. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
21. Outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog.
23. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
25. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
26. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
28. Enthusiastic approval.
30. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
32. A French abbot.
33. (Greek mythology) God of the heavens.
37. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
39. In bed.
42. An informal term for a father.
43. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
44. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
46. Having winglike extensions.
49. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
51. A very thin line.
52. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
53. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
54. Formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
55. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
61. One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower.
63. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
65. Freetail bats.
68. Spider monkeys.
72. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
73. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
76. A boy or man.
79. Remaining after all deductions.
80. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
81. Of the common people of ancient Rome.
82. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
2. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
3. (anatomy) Any structure that resembles a horn in shape.
4. A festival featuring African-American culture.
5. A loose cloak with a hood.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. English writer of stories for children (1882-1956).
9. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
10. 1/10 gram.
11. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
14. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
22. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
24. Any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
31. A (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant.
34. A politically organized body of people under a single government.
35. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
36. A long monotonous harangue.
38. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
40. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
41. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
45. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
47. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
48. Antihypertensive drug (trade name Aldomet) used in the treatment of high blood pressure.
50. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
56. (Irish) The sea personified.
57. Situated at an apex.
58. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
60. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
62. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
64. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
67. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
69. Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887).
70. Divisible by two.
71. Stalk of a moss capsule.
74. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
75. Being one more than two.
77. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
78. A Russian river.
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