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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
12. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
15. An informal debt instrument.
16. Admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding.
17. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
18. A master's degree in library science.
19. One of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally.
20. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. A three-tone Chadic language.
25. Using speech rather than writing.
27. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
29. A fit of shivering.
33. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
37. (informal) "in the dumps".
41. By bad luck.
44. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
45. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
48. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
49. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
52. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
53. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
54. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
56. Of or relating to or involving an area.
60. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
67. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
68. Cause to start burning.
71. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
72. (informal) Roused to anger.
73. Water containing salts.
75. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
76. Used of a single unit or thing.
77. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law.
78. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.
2. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
3. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
4. A member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California.
5. Used of a single unit or thing.
6. A case for containing a set of articles.
7. Of a leaf shape.
8. Industrial city of Belarus southeast of Minsk.
9. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
10. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
12. God of wealth and love.
13. European food fish.
14. (of mines and mining) Worked from the exposed surface.
22. People having the same social or economic status.
24. Capital of modern Macedonia.
26. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
34. One or more recordings issued together.
35. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
36. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
38. Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal.
39. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
40. Wood of a sumac.
42. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
43. Large Indian antelope.
46. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
55. A shed containing a number of beehives.
57. The amount a salary is increased.
58. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
59. The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet.
61. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
62. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
63. Male red deer.
64. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
65. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
66. A town in north central Oklahoma.
69. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
70. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
74. The square of a body of any size of type.
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