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1. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
5. Thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. A loud raucous cry as of an awl.
16. A tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
20. Unable to move or resist motion.
21. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
22. A small skullcap.
23. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
25. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
27. A light touch or stroke.
28. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. (informal) Of the highest quality.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. Informal terms for a mother.
42. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
45. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
46. Sour or bitter in taste.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. A master's degree in fine arts.
52. A resource.
53. Of or relating to the gums.
55. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
57. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
58. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
60. Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.
61. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
65. The dense colorless framework of a chloroplast.
67. English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975).
70. Any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds.
72. Inquire about.
73. The fatty flesh of eel.
74. A dicot family of the order Urticales including.
77. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
78. (Roman mythology) Roman god of woods and fields and flocks.
79. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote.
3. Accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier.
4. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
5. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
8. A person who eats human flesh.
9. Chief port of Yemen.
10. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
11. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
24. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
29. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
31. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
32. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
33. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
36. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
38. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
39. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
41. A system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations.
43. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
44. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
47. To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent.
48. Of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first.
51. A flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night).
54. In a corrupt and deceitful manner.
56. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
59. Deciduous aromatic shrubs or small trees.
62. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
63. A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein.
64. A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus.
66. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
68. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
69. In the Roman calendar.
71. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
75. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
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