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1. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
4. A Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes.
11. A unit of length equal to 1760 yards.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. Adroitness in using the hands.
17. The content of cognition.
18. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
20. Marked by unthinking boldness.
22. A useful or valuable quality.
24. Having winglike extensions.
25. (Chinese and Japanese) Treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body.
27. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
29. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
30. A Loloish language.
33. Stalk of a moss capsule.
36. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
38. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
40. How long something has existed.
41. Informal terms for a mother.
42. In bed.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981).
48. Being one more than fifty.
49. A city in northeastern Ohio.
51. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
54. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
55. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
57. Too numerous to be counted.
59. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
60. Russian composer (1804-1857).
64. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. A city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau.
73. Jordan's port.
74. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
75. Polished courtesy.
77. A local computer network for communication between computers.
78. Extremely pleasing.
79. An order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
2. Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal.
3. A person of Iranian descent.
4. A genus of Bothidae.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
7. An expression of greeting.
8. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
9. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws.
10. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
11. English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1896).
12. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
13. For fear that.
14. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
19. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
21. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
23. Of or relating to or toward the cheek.
26. Being of delicate or slender build.
28. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
31. The mansion of the lord of the manor.
32. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
34. Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season.
35. The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal.
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the N Malay Peninsula and parts of the W Malay Archipelago.
39. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
43. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
46. A conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic "Reynard the Fox".
47. Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs.
50. An island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska.
52. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
53. Temporary living quarters.
56. A city in western Kenya.
58. At all times.
61. City in Sudan.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
65. An informal term for a father.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
67. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
68. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
71. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
72. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
76. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
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