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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
15. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
16. 1 species.
17. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
18. A boy or man.
19. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
24. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
25. (Greek mythology) A maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers.
27. Being nine more than ninety.
28. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
30. A state in New England.
34. A town in southern Turkey.
38. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
40. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
41. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
42. An awkward stupid person.
44. Having an agreeably pungent taste.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
51. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
52. Communicated in the form of words.
54. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
55. A primeval personification of air and breath.
56. A genus of Indriidae.
58. 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.
60. A state in northwestern North America.
61. (informal) Of the highest quality.
64. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
68. Thick end of the handle.
71. Common Indian weaverbird.
73. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
78. Extremely pleasing.
79. Not divisible by two.
80. Either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from Rhodopsin by the action of light.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. Jordan's port.
3. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. A member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho.
5. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
6. An advanced law degree.
7. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
8. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. Having two axes.
12. Black tropical American cuckoo.
13. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
14. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
20. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
22. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya.
31. Not out.
32. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
33. English comedienne and mistress of Charles II (1650-1687).
35. A desert in southern Israel.
36. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
37. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
39. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
43. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
45. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
47. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
49. Of or relating to Namibia or its people.
50. The process of exposing to air (so as to purify).
53. God of wealth and love.
57. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
59. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Jordan's port.
65. Praise, glorify, or honor.
66. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
67. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
69. An instinctive motive.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
75. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
76. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
77. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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