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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
12. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Using a pronoun or other pro-word instead of repeating a word.
17. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
18. Island in West Indies.
20. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.
22. A fraudulent business scheme.
23. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
26. A particular environment or walk of life.
27. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
30. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
37. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
40. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
42. (anatomy) A natural hollow or sinus within the body.
44. Liquid excretory product.
45. A tight-fitting headdress.
46. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
47. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
48. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
51. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
54. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
57. Old World woody vines.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. Before noon.
62. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
64. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
66. Susceptible to being led or directed.
70. The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving).
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
75. An airfoil that controls lateral motion.
77. Being two more than fifty.
78. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
79. A substance that oxidizes another substance.
80. Water frozen in the solid state.
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1. Informal terms for a meal.
2. A group of countries in special alliance.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
5. Sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye).
6. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
8. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
9. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
10. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
12. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
13. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
14. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
19. Type genus of the Amiidae.
21. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
29. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
31. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
32. The month following October and preceding December.
33. Being of delicate or slender build.
34. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
35. An investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods.
36. Type genus of the Viperidae.
38. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
39. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
41. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
43. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
49. Mildly laxative n.
50. A genus of Ploceidae.
52. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
53. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
55. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
56. A Russian river.
59. The capital of Switzerland.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. A drama set to music.
65. The eighth month of the civil year.
67. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
68. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
69. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
71. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
72. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
76. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
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