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1. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Assam or its people or culture.
12. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
15. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
16. A merchant who designs and sells hats.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
19. The part of the skull that encloses the brain.
20. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
21. Small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers.
23. Being nine more than forty.
25. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
26. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
29. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
32. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
33. A sharply directional antenna.
35. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
36. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
39. Leaping insect.
43. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
44. A human limb.
45. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
46. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
49. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
51. A state in the eastern United States.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816).
59. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
62. Chief port of Yemen.
63. A major god.
66. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
69. The basic unit of money on Malta.
70. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
71. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
73. A Dravidian language spoken by the Gond people in south central India.
74. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
75. A region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea.
77. (archaic) A fitting reward.
78. A doctor's degree in education.
79. A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold.
80. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
2. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Someone who walks at a leisurely pace.
5. A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived.
6. Any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body.
7. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
8. Submersible vessel for one or two persons.
9. Board a plane.
10. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
11. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
12. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
13. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
14. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
22. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
24. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
30. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
31. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
34. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
40. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
41. The third day of the week.
42. United States writer remembered for his stories (1783-1859).
47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states.
50. Offering fun and gaiety.
55. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
56. Suitable for use as food.
57. Get or find back.
58. Great coolness and composure under strain.
60. Strong and sharp.
61. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
64. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
65. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
67. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
68. United States film maker (1896-1973).
72. (informal) Roused to anger.
76. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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