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1. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
4. A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed.
12. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
15. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
16. (Greek mythology) Fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
17. Goddess of fate.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. Lacking in tone or expression.
20. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
21. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
23. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
24. Jordan's port.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
28. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
30. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
33. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
35. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
38. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
40. Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907).
41. The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
46. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
50. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
53. Take in solid food.
54. Tropical Asian starlings.
55. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk.
59. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
62. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
66. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
68. One who reveals confidential information in return for money.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
74. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
75. A sharp change in direction.
76. A small valve (or valve-like structure).
78. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
79. Used of a single unit or thing.
80. Of or relating to a taxonomic order.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
3. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
4. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
5. Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles.
6. United States singer and film actor (1915-1998).
7. Congenital absence of an arm or leg.
8. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
9. Witnessed at first hand.
10. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
11. Of or in or relating to the nose.
12. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
22. Confused movement.
25. A city of central Russia south of Moscow.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
31. An administrative unit of government.
32. Of or denoting or relating to the Balkan countries or their inhabitants or the Balkan peninsula or the Balkan Mountains.
34. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
36. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
37. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
39. Brightly colored and showy.
42. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
43. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
47. A refuge from attack.
48. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
49. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
51. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
52. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
56. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
57. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
58. 1 species.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. Type genus of the Bramidae.
63. Very dark black.
64. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
65. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
67. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
69. English monk and scholar (672-735).
72. The month following February and preceding April.
73. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
77. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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