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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
12. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. Denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building.
20. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
21. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
22. Dearly loved.
25. A state in northwestern North America.
27. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
28. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
30. An American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820).
33. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression).
37. Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests.
41. Earlier a god.
45. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
46. Small genus of east African herbs.
48. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
50. Either extremity of something that has length.
51. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
52. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
53. Used especially of front teeth.
58. A short aria.
59. Russian abstract painter (1878-1935).
62. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
63. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
65. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
69. A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries.
70. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
73. A genus of Mustelidae.
74. A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid.
78. Being two more than fifty.
79. Being here now.
80. Epithet of Siva.
81. The fatty flesh of eel.
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1. With no effort to conceal.
2. A slender double-reed instrument.
3. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
4. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A state in New England.
7. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture.
8. Squash bugs.
9. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
10. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
13. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
19. A storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed.
23. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
24. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. A fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface).
32. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant.
36. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
38. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
39. French impressionist painter (1840-1926).
40. A genus of Ploceidae.
42. The striking of one body against another.
43. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
44. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
47. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
49. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
54. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
55. Remove or make invisible.
56. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
57. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
60. Of or like a feeble old woman.
61. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
64. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
66. World's longest river (4187 miles).
67. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
68. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
71. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
72. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
75. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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