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1. An informal term for a father.
4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. (Greek mythology) The Greek personification of death.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
20. A squeeze with the fingers.
21. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
22. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
23. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
25. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
28. The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
31. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
37. (psychiatry) A psychological disorder of thought or emotion.
39. (Greek mythology) An Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos.
41. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language.
45. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
49. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
50. Dried grape.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
54. The fifth day of the week.
55. A sudden very loud noise.
57. A master's degree in library science.
66. Garlic mayonnaise.
68. Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value.
69. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
70. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
72. Any loose flowing garment.
73. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
74. United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956).
76. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
77. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
78. Type genus of the Sciaenidae.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Fallow deer.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. A unit of pressure.
5. An unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument.
6. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
7. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
8. The sound made by corvine birds.
9. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
10. The grasses.
11. Inquire about.
12. The closing section of a musical composition.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
19. Inability to walk.
24. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus).
26. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
27. A Swiss house.
29. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam.
30. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
32. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
34. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
35. In some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.
36. State in northeastern India.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
40. An honorary degree in science.
42. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
46. United States poet (1883-1963).
47. A Russian river.
48. Annual and biennial herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia.
51. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
56. Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC).
58. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
59. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
60. Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945).
61. A transient variation in voltage or current.
62. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
63. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
67. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
71. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
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