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1. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
5. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
12. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
15. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
16. A country north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea.
17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
18. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
19. Small personal or clothing or sewing items.
20. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
21. Offering little or no hope.
23. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
25. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
29. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
31. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
35. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
40. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
41. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
42. A trap for birds or small mammals.
43. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
47. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
49. Informal terms for the mouth.
50. A congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip.
52. That can be given a date.
54. A cephalosporin antibiotic (trade name Ultracef).
56. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
57. Reflect light or colors like an opal.
60. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
63. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
70. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
72. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
73. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
76. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
77. An affirmative.
78. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
79. Made warm or hot.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
3. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
4. A town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island west of Vancouver.
5. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
6. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
7. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
8. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
9. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
10. Dyed with henna.
11. An associate degree in applied science.
12. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
13. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
14. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
22. Strike sharply.
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
28. Dragonflies and damselflies.
30. Of an instrument of certain death.
32. (informal) Exceptionally good.
33. Remove salt from.
34. Disparaging terms for small people.
36. A garment worn on the upper half of the body.
37. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. A city in southern Malawi.
44. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
45. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
46. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
48. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
51. Large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish.
53. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
55. Felt hat with a creased crown.
58. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
59. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
61. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
62. A Loloish language.
65. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
66. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
67. Expel, as of gases and odors.
69. Of southern Europe.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. An informal term for a father.
75. Being nine more than ninety.
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