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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect).
11. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Moving forward suddenly and swiftly.
17. A city in northern India.
18. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
19. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
21. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
23. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
24. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
29. Largest known toad species.
31. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
33. The organ stop having a tone of soft sweet string quality.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
40. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
41. (medicine) Chilly.
45. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
46. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
48. With the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge.
50. The longest division of geological time.
51. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
52. Small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia.
54. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
56. Lacking leadership.
57. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
60. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. The sixth month of the civil year.
74. The month following April and preceding June.
75. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
76. A tributary of the Ohio River in West Virginia.
77. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
78. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
79. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
80. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. By bad luck.
3. A university town in western Montana.
4. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
5. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
6. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
7. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
8. Gaudy and showy but valueless.
9. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
12. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
13. A male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel.
14. At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.
20. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
22. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
26. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. A power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed v 1.
30. Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water.
32. A state in midwestern United States.
34. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
35. Of or relating to or near the nares.
37. German composer.
38. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
39. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
42. God of the earth.
43. Not in action or at work.
44. Wound or wrapped around something.
47. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
49. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
53. Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share.
55. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
58. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
59. Lower in esteem.
61. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
62. Russian country house.
65. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.
67. Type genus of the Amiidae.
68. South African term for `boss'.
69. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
71. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
72. A small piece of cloth.
73. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
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