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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. A genus of fish in the family Caproidae.
11. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. Fly a plane.
17. (Roman mythology) God of love.
18. A floor covering.
19. United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964).
20. A characteristic sound.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
31. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
38. A fraudulent business scheme.
41. A resin obtained from the camphor tree.
44. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
45. A port in southwestern Scotland.
47. Of superior grade.
48. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
50. An uproarious party.
52. By bad luck.
53. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
55. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
57. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
59. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
61. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
69. Oldest known reptiles.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
74. A worker whose job is to repair things.
75. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
76. Of southern Europe.
77. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
78. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
2. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
3. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
4. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
5. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
6. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
7. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
8. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
9. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
10. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
11. 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.
12. An American follower of the Mennonite Bishop Amman.
13. A gambling card game of Spanish origin.
14. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
22. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
23. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
25. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
32. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
33. Either extremity of something that has length.
34. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
35. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
36. Relating to or designed for or using the singing voice.
37. An honorary arts degree.
39. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
40. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
42. The sign language used in the United States.
43. Situated in a particular spot or position.
46. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
51. A language of Australian aborigines.
54. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
56. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
58. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
60. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
62. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
63. Slightly wet.
64. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
65. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
66. Very dark black.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. The month following March and preceding May.
71. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
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