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1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
5. A sweet innocent baby.
11. Imprudently incurring risk.
15. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
16. A hard protective sheath as secreted by certain protoctists e.g..
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. German romantic poet (1787-1862).
25. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
26. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
28. Being nine more than ninety.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. South African term for `boss'.
40. Report or maintain.
43. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
45. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
46. (botany) Divided into two lobes.
50. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
52. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
53. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
54. Goddess of dawn.
57. A public promotion of some product or service.
58. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. Having dropped by the force of gravity.
65. Characteristic of a lack of maturity.
70. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
74. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
75. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
76. Used of solutions.
78. Being one more than two.
79. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
80. A professional person authorized to practice law.
81. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
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1. Wife of Ramachandra.
2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
3. A member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
6. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
7. An abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity or excitability.
8. One of three artisans of the gods.
9. Fiddler crabs.
10. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
11. A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad.
12. A city in northern India.
13. A branch of the Tai languages.
14. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
22. A bachelor's degree in religion.
24. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish.
31. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
33. A South American river.
34. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
35. (British) "use your noddle".
38. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
39. Covered with paving material.
41. A newt in its terrestrial stage of development.
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
44. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
47. Impaired ability to learn to read.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
51. An honorary degree in science.
55. Not disposed to cheat or defraud.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. Satisfy (thirst).
60. An island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago.
62. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
64. By bad luck.
66. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
67. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
68. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
69. English essayist (1775-1834).
72. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.
73. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
77. That is to say.
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