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1. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
5. Of or relating to of comprising atoms.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
15. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
16. Small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs.
17. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
18. Of a pale purple color.
20. A fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon.
21. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
22. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
23. The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness.
26. A decree that prohibits something.
27. The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name).
29. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
31. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
32. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.
36. The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
40. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
41. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
45. Ludicrously odd.
47. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
49. A French abbot.
50. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
51. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
56. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
59. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
63. Italian architect (1508-1580).
68. In bed.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
71. God of love and erotic desire.
73. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
78. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
79. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
80. 1 species.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
2. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
3. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
4. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. Sealed in a can or jar.
7. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
8. The least possible.
9. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
10. A nation in northern North America.
11. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. Common Indian weaverbird.
14. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
19. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
24. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
25. Small black-headed European gull.
28. A group of southern Bantu languages.
30. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
33. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
34. Jordan's port.
35. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
37. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
38. Held back.
39. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
42. Wild and domestic cattle.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
46. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
48. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
54. A tract of open rolling country (especially upland).
55. Scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
60. Make less active or intense.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
64. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
65. An artificial source of visible illumination.
66. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
67. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
75. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
76. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
77. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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