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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
5. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture.
11. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
15. A quantity of no importance.
16. South American cavy.
17. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
18. The eighth month of the civil year.
19. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
20. A sudden short attack.
21. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
23. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
25. Related on the mother's side.
26. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
28. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
30. A light creamy dish made from fish or meat and set with gelatin.
34. Type genus of the Clupeidae.
38. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. An honorary degree in science.
43. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
45. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
48. Associated with academia or an academy.
50. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
53. (British slang) An absolute certainty.
54. Absent-minded dreaming while awake.
57. A Russian river.
58. The content of cognition.
59. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. A French abbot.
64. Of or relating to alga.
67. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
71. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
74. A tight-fitting headdress.
75. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
77. A master's degree in fine arts.
78. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
79. Violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements).
80. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
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1. Of or like a feeble old woman.
2. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
3. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
4. A car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top.
5. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
6. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
9. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
10. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
11. An administrative unit of government.
12. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
13. Being seven more than fifty.
14. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
22. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
24. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
27. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
29. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
31. Covered with or resembling slime.
32. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
33. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
35. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
36. Liquid excretory product.
37. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
44. Of or belonging to an aecium.
46. A glass for beer.
49. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
51. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
52. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
55. Being nine more than ninety.
56. Not enough.
62. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
63. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
65. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
66. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
68. The highest level or degree attainable.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
72. The sign language used in the United States.
73. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
76. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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