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1. The habitation of wild animals.
5. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
12. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
15. Make amends for.
16. Any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms.
17. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
18. Speaking a Slavic language.
19. (British) A copse that shelters game.
20. A master's degree in business.
21. In a series.
23. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
25. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
28. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
31. Relating to or near the ulna.
32. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
33. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
35. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
39. Refuse to acknowledge.
42. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
44. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
45. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
48. Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet.
49. Something considered choice to eat.
50. (Scot) A leather strap for punishing children.
51. A pass between mountain peaks.
52. A Loloish language.
53. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
55. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
60. Covered with frost.
62. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
65. Obvious and dull.
69. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
72. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
73. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
74. A discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof.
76. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
77. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
78. Large brightly crested bird of Africa.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
2. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
3. The eighth month of the civil year.
4. A new appraisal or evaluation.
5. One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature.
6. Any fungus of the genus Lepiota.
7. Being of delicate or slender build.
8. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
9. Either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx.
10. A strong emotion.
11. An almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
12. An area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq.
13. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
14. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
22. (informal) Of the highest quality.
24. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
26. A member of the Siouan people of the Arkansas river valley in Arkansas.
27. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
29. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
30. A surface burn.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. The liquid part that can be extracted from fruits and vegetables.
37. Protective covering made of metal and used in combat.
38. By accident.
40. (of drugs) Through the mouth rather than through injection.
41. Tie again or anew.
43. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
46. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
47. Suggestive of the supernatural.
54. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor.
56. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
57. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
58. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. The basic unit of money in Peru.
63. Relating to the Urdu language.
64. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
66. A quantity of no importance.
67. An Asian river between China and Russia.
68. Lacking companions or companionship.
70. Not reflecting light.
71. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
75. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
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