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1. The last (12th) month of the year.
4. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
12. A federally chartered savings bank.
15. The sign language used in the United States.
16. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
17. (Irish) The sea personified.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
24. Playfully vexing (especially by ridicule).
26. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. (used especially of glances) Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.
32. The residue that remains when something is burned.
35. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
36. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
38. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
40. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
42. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
45. A vigorous blow.
46. Small very thin pancake.
50. An engineering university in Cambridge.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. (nautical) Of an anchor.
54. Type genus of the Percidae.
56. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
58. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
61. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
62. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
63. With a finite limit.
68. English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723).
69. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
70. A state in New England.
72. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
75. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
77. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
78. A light touch or stroke.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
3. A compact mass.
4. A port city in southwestern Iran.
5. Tag the base runner to get him out.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Having only superficial plausibility.
9. Inflammation of the iris.
10. The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
11. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
12. An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end.
13. Used of the language of the deaf.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
25. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
27. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
28. Informal terms for a mother.
30. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence.
34. Disparaging terms for the common people.
37. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
39. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
41. A populous province in northeastern China.
43. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
44. Capital and largest city of Lebanon.
47. Plaything consisting of a toy gun that makes a popping sound.
48. Formed like a bacillus.
49. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
53. Castrate, used with animals.
55. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
57. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
59. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
60. Of or belonging to an enemy.
64. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
65. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
67. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
71. A doctor's degree in education.
73. A person forced to flee from home or country.
74. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
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