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1. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
4. (sometimes followed by `to') Causing harm or injury.
12. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
19. Music composed for dancing the saraband.
20. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. A thrusting blow with a knife.
23. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
28. In addition.
30. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
34. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
39. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
41. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
42. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
43. Of or pertaining to adnexa.
45. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
46. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
48. A boy or man.
50. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
51. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
53. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
55. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
56. Depressing in character or appearance.
58. Make less visible or unclear.
61. (informal) Of the highest quality.
62. Goddess of war.
66. By bad luck.
70. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
71. Of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture.
73. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
74. Used of a single unit or thing.
76. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
77. Not divisible by two.
78. A card for sending messages by post without an envelope.
79. Black tropical American cuckoo.
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1. Large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters.
2. Having winglike extensions.
3. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
4. An operating system that is on a disk.
5. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
6. 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.
7. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
8. Type genus of the Gobiesocidae.
9. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
10. Coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position.
11. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
27. Make into a total.
29. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
31. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
32. A trivalent metalloid element.
33. become turned or set on end.
35. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
36. Large American feline resembling a lion.
37. A knife resembling a cleaver.
38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
44. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
47. Placed crosswise.
49. Devoid of physical sensation.
52. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
54. (Welsh) A warrior god.
57. Relating to or having the characteristics on an icon.
59. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
60. (usually followed by `to') Determined by tragic fate.
63. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain.
64. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
65. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
67. New Zealand conifer.
68. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
69. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
72. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
75. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
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