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1. A French abbot.
5. An Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice.
12. The quantity contained in a keg.
15. Not easy.
16. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.
17. A rapid bustling commotion.
18. In bed.
19. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
20. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
22. A decree that prohibits something.
24. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
27. God of love and erotic desire.
30. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
33. Take back what one has said.
36. Genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan.
37. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
40. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
42. Thorn apple.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
50. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
51. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
55. Among the largest bony fish.
56. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
59. Small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping.
60. By bad luck.
61. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
63. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
67. A proportion multiplied by 100.
70. 10 grams.
71. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
72. Of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras.
74. The residue that remains when something is burned.
75. A city in southeastern Spain.
76. The sixth month of the civil year.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
4. A doctor's degree in education.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. Capital of Swaziland.
8. Extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front.
9. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
10. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
11. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
12. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
13. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
14. Spanish painter best known for his portraits (1746-1828).
21. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
23. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
25. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
26. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
28. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
29. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
31. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
32. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
34. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
35. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
38. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
39. Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water.
41. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
43. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
45. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
46. Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs.
47. Causing a dull and steady pain.
49. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
52. A segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene.
53. The capital of Eritrea.
54. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
57. Elk or moose.
58. Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical.
62. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
65. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
66. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
68. A shape that sags.
69. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
73. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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