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1. The month following February and preceding April.
4. French symbolist poet noted for his free verse (1842-1898).
12. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
15. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
16. Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits.
17. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
18. True lizards.
20. A track or mark left by something that has passed.
21. (British) Your grandmother.
22. A medium to dark brownish yellow color.
25. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
27. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
29. A republic in southeastern Europe.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. The compass point that is one point north of northwest.
35. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
38. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
40. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
46. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
47. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
49. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
50. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
51. Avoid and stay away from deliberately.
53. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
55. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
58. A computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter.
60. Favoring one person or side over another.
61. Robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers.
65. Christian martyr.
70. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
73. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
75. Eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms.
78. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
79. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
80. Type genus of the Gentianaceae.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
2. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
3. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
4. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
7. Machine tool for shaping metal or wood.
8. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
9. The limits within which something can be effective.
10. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
11. The fatty flesh of eel.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
14. Direct one's course or way.
19. Having a slightly undulating margin.
23. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws.
24. Wild and menacing.
26. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
28. An enclosed space.
30. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
32. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
33. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
36. A ribbon used as a decoration.
37. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. By bad luck.
45. Of a quality, as in.
48. Airplane powered by a turbojet engine.
52. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
54. Short and fat.
56. A motley assortment of things.
57. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
59. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
62. City in Sudan.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
66. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
67. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
68. A Loloish language.
69. A city of central China.
71. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
72. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
76. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
77. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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