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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet.
12. Goddess of fate.
15. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
16. A worker who is hired to perform a job.
17. A negative.
18. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
20. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
21. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
22. Of a pale purple color.
23. A decree that prohibits something.
24. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
26. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
29. (South Africa) A small hill rising up from the African veld.
31. A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved.
34. (Old Testament) The first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines).
37. Suggestive of the supernatural.
39. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
40. Discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization, in psychoanalysis.
42. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
44. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
45. South African mongoose-like viverrine having a face like a lemur and only four toes.
46. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
48. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
51. Unknown god.
52. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.
58. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
59. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
63. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
65. Fix firmly.
70. Being one more than seven.
71. Being one more than one.
73. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
74. Commit forever.
76. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
77. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
78. Being without physical aid.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
2. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
3. Moving quickly and lightly.
4. Echo repeatedly, echo again and again.
5. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
6. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
7. Someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters.
8. A noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it.
9. A port in southwestern Scotland.
10. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
11. One species.
12. A pad placed under a carpet.
13. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
14. Two items of the same kind.
19. A hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk.
25. Large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods.
27. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
28. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
30. A protective structure of stone or concrete.
32. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
33. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
35. In bed.
36. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
38. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
41. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
43. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
47. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
53. A domain in which something is dominant.
54. The basic unit of money in Mauritania.
55. An Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland.
56. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
57. A porous mass of interlacing fibers the forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used.
60. Of or like a feeble old woman.
61. A city of central China.
62. A descendent or heir.
64. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
66. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
67. A female domestic.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
72. A unit of pressure.
75. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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