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1. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
4. Conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy.
12. Being six more than fifty.
15. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
16. (of twins) Derived from two separate fertilized ova.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
20. A short composition for a solo instrument.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A very young lamb.
27. A small island.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people.
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of Eritrea or its people.
37. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
38. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
43. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
44. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
48. An appearance of reflected light.
49. A large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm.
50. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
52. Free from liquid or moisture.
53. (informal) Exceptionally good.
55. Adopted in order to deceive.
58. An honorary degree in science.
59. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
61. Tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage.
63. Australasian kingfishers.
67. A gum resin from the conium hemlock tree.
70. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
71. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
74. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
75. Towards the side away from the wind.
76. A battle in 1800 in which the French under Napoleon Bonaparte won a great victory over the Austrians.
78. The basic unit of money in Iran.
79. Either extremity of something that has length.
80. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Type genus of the Apidae.
2. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
3. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
6. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
7. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
8. A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).
9. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
10. Freetail bats.
11. A Christian recluse.
12. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
13. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir and avenger of Balder.
14. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
19. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
24. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
26. Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish.
28. Abounding with or resembling stars.
29. Small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit.
31. Involving two dimensions.
32. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
34. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
35. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
36. A genus of Soricidae.
41. Type genus of the Amiidae.
42. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
45. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
46. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
47. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. Colloquial British abbreviation.
54. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
56. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
57. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens.
60. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
62. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
64. Chief port of Yemen.
65. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
66. Something that hinders as if with bonds v 1.
68. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
69. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
72. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
73. Gone by.
77. In operation or operational.
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