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1. The chessman that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard.
5. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
12. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
15. Type genus of the Amiidae.
16. Wild llama.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Become gelatinous.
19. The month following March and preceding May.
20. A city in southeastern South Korea.
22. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
24. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
26. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
27. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
29. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
30. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
32. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
35. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
38. A distinguished female operatic singer.
42. Famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769).
44. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
45. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
46. (British informal) Ill-tempered or annoyed.
50. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
53. The commercial activity of providing funds and capital.
56. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
57. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany.
60. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
62. Old World field mice.
64. Related on the mother's side.
68. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
69. A sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
74. Accumulated on a surface of a solid.
75. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
76. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
77. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
78. The capital and largest city of Japan.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. The ending of a series or sequence.
3. A worker who oils engines or machinery.
4. A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.
5. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
6. A small amount of liquid food.
7. United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981).
8. Black tropical American cuckoo.
9. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
13. Of or relating to alga.
14. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
21. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
23. A member of the Salish people in northwestern Washington.
25. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
28. A port and fashionable resort city on southern Mexico's Pacific coast.
33. The basic unit of money in Vietnam.
34. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
36. A column of light (as from a beacon).
37. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
39. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
40. The capital and largest city of Lithuania.
41. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
43. (botany) Divided into three lobs.
47. A town on the Hudson River in New York.
48. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
49. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. A city in southeastern Spain.
54. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
55. Guinea fowl.
58. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
59. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
61. The brightest star in Cygnus.
63. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
65. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
66. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
67. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
70. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
71. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
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