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1. A small piece of cloth.
4. A genus of Peramelidae.
12. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
15. A doctor's degree in education.
16. Of or relating to or in the manner of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
17. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
18. A tight-fitting headdress.
19. A politically organized body of people under a single government.
20. Of a leaf shape.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. Rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants.
26. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
28. Badly injured, perhaps with amputation.
29. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
31. A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
43. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
48. A B vitamin that prevents beriberi.
50. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
52. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
53. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
56. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
58. Ludicrously odd.
61. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
63. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
66. The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.
70. Transfer to another.
72. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
73. Being one more than two.
74. National capital of Solomon Islands.
77. Serving as or forming a base.
78. (British) Your grandmother.
79. A habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying).
80. An Asian river between China and Russia.
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1. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
2. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
3. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
4. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
5. A port city in southwestern Iran.
6. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
7. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
8. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
9. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. A figure of a person made of packed snow.
12. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
13. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
14. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
21. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
23. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
25. Being in competition.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. Extremely pleasing.
32. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
33. United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958).
35. Very dark black.
36. (Irish) Goddess.
37. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
38. Tree (as opposed to shrub).
40. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
44. A Baltic-Finnic language.
47. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
49. A small two-wheeled cart for one passenger.
51. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
54. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
55. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
57. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
59. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
60. Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive.
62. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
64. A primeval personification of air and breath.
65. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
67. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
68. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
69. Someone whose job is to dye cloth.
71. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
76. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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