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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
12. The bill in a restaurant.
15. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
16. Damaged by blows or hard usage.
17. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
18. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
19. Having winglike extensions.
20. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
22. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
24. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
25. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
26. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
28. City in Sudan.
30. Someone who has red hair.
34. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
37. English essayist (1775-1834).
38. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
39. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
41. Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
49. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
50. The act of escaping physically.
52. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
53. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
56. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
60. Enthusiastic approval.
64. Noisy talk.
68. Curving or bulging outward.
70. Cause to be embarrassed.
72. The cry made by sheep.
73. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
74. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
76. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
77. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
78. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
79. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
3. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
7. Without qualification.
8. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
9. Characterized by intense emotion.
10. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
11. Someone who educates.
12. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
13. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
14. An inlaid furniture decoration.
21. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
23. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
29. A town in south central Washington.
31. Pass by, as of time.
32. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
33. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
35. A loud utterance.
36. A jar made of glass or plastic.
40. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
42. The capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti.
43. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
44. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
45. The state of being employed or having a job.
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
51. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
57. Relating to or near the ulna.
58. Bar temporarily.
59. An oil port in southern Iraq.
61. Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes.
62. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
63. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
65. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
66. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
67. God of love and erotic desire.
69. Being one more than ninety.
71. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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