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1. A decree that prohibits something.
4. Resembling a berry.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Marked by extreme anger.
17. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
18. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
20. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
21. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
22. A line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
27. Any of various types of cabbage.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
34. Basic principles of the cosmos.
38. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
39. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
40. (of skin) Covered with warts or projections that resemble warts.
42. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
44. The basic unit of money in Vietnam.
45. Late time of life.
46. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
48. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.
50. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
51. A green transparent form of beryl.
53. Totally lacking in saturation and therefore having no hue.
55. A small cake leavened with yeast.
56. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
58. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
59. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
71. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
73. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
74. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
77. Dignified manner or conduct.
78. The residue that remains when something is burned.
79. With a sneer.
80. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
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1. Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
2. Squash bugs.
3. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
4. United States baseball player (born 1925).
5. An associate degree in nursing.
6. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
7. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
8. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
9. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
10. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
11. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
12. Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit.
13. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
14. Avatar of Vishnu.
19. King of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839).
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
28. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
30. Any thick messy substance.
31. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
32. A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive.
33. (Irish) God of love and beauty.
35. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
36. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
37. Tropical Asian starlings.
41. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
43. One who works hard at boring tasks.
47. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
49. The food served and eaten at one time.
52. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
54. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
57. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
60. Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color.
61. The post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs.
62. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
63. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
64. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
66. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
67. A vigorous blow.
68. Mother goddess.
70. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
72. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
75. A bachelor's degree in science.
76. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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