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1. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
5. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
12. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
15. The state of being decayed or destroyed.
16. Situated away from the axis of any body or part.
17. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
18. A state in the western United States.
19. A Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth.
20. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
21. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
23. The state of being ripe.
25. A man who serves as a sailor.
27. Call forth.
28. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
30. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
32. Of an incalculable amount.
35. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
39. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
41. The address where a person lives.
43. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
44. Before noon.
45. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.
46. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
47. A title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority.
48. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
50. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
56. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
60. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
64. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
68. Obvious and dull.
69. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
72. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
73. A doctor's degree in education.
74. Reproduce someone's behavior or looks.
76. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
77. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
78. A lack of vitality.
79. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
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1. (medical) A bandage consisting of a pad and belt.
2. Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual.
3. (physics) Involving a transfer of heat.
4. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
5. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
8. Further or added.
9. Being three more than fifty.
10. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
11. A synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain.
12. A farewell remark.
13. People having the same social or economic status.
14. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
22. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard.
24. In no manner.
26. A tributary of the Missouri River.
29. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
31. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
33. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
34. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
36. A friendly nation.
37. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
38. American novelist (1909-1955).
40. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
42. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
49. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
53. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
54. Lacking in light.
55. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
57. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
58. Any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae.
59. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
61. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
62. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
63. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
65. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
66. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
67. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
70. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
71. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
75. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
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