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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. Lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific.
11. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
15. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
16. A salt or ester of acetic acid.
17. Similar or related in quality or character.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. Deserving or inciting pity.
20. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
21. By bad luck.
23. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge.
24. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
26. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
28. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
30. Capable of being acted.
34. Covered or wrapped with a bandage.
38. A sudden short attack.
39. (Babylonian) The sky god.
41. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
42. People having the same social or economic status.
44. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
47. A unit of pressure.
48. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
50. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.
54. Suitable for use as food.
57. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
62. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
66. An amine containing the double bond linkage -C=C-N-.
67. A port city in southwestern Iran.
70. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
71. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
72. Aromatic gum resin.
74. Used of a single unit or thing.
75. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
76. Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers.
77. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
4. An accidental happening.
5. A needle-like part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal.
6. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
7. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. (Sumerian) Sun god.
10. An Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland.
11. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
12. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
13. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
14. A town in north central Oklahoma.
22. A large number or amount.
25. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
27. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
29. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
31. A genus of Caltha.
32. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
33. Convert ordinary language into code.
35. Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926).
36. As from a country.
37. Performance of moral or religious acts.
40. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
45. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
46. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
49. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
51. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
55. Port city on Atlantic coast.
56. The capital and largest city of the Central Africa Republic.
58. A proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys.
59. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
60. Complacently or inanely foolish.
61. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
63. Very dark black.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
65. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
68. An honorary law degree.
69. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
73. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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