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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. Leap around playfully, like young primates.
11. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
17. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
18. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
20. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
26. A group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast.
28. A needle-like part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal.
30. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
35. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
38. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
41. Annual sunflower grown for silage and for its seeds which are a source of oil.
44. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
46. A state in midwestern United States.
47. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
50. An isogram connecting points receiving equal amounts of sunshine.
51. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
53. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
55. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
60. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
63. A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains.
66. Noisy talk.
68. Of or related to or derived from oats.
71. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
74. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
75. Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520).
78. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
79. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
80. A festival featuring African-American culture.
81. Towards the side away from the wind.
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1. Offering fun and gaiety.
2. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
3. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
4. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
5. Someone whose business is advertising.
6. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
7. Poorly stated or described.
8. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
9. After noon.
10. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. Large Old World butterflies.
13. COmmon Business Oriented Language.
14. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
19. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
23. A decree that prohibits something.
24. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
25. (Middle East) Usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling.
27. Made of fir or pine.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
32. The body excluding the head and neck and limbs.
36. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
37. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
39. God of justice.
40. Covered with a firm surface.
42. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
43. An ice containing milk.
45. Transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public.
48. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
52. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
56. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
58. Land received by fee tail v 1.
59. (printing) A short line at the end of the main strokes of a character.
62. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
64. Avatar of Vishnu.
65. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
67. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
69. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
70. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
72. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
73. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
76. An informal term for a father.
77. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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