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1. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
4. Milk thickened with a butter and flour roux.
12. A light touch or stroke.
15. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
16. English poet (1618-1857).
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. An Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice.
20. Relating to or of the nature of a zone.
21. The domain ruled by an emperor or empress.
24. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
25. Stern foremost or backward.
26. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
28. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
29. A cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte).
33. A choice or delicious dish.
38. Treated with some kind of application.
39. The highest level or degree attainable.
40. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
41. Punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the person (even unto death).
43. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
44. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
46. 100 sene equal 1 tala.
47. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
50. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
52. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
53. Spanish Catholic theologian and founder of the Society of Jesus.
57. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard.
58. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
62. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
65. Expel, as of gases and odors.
68. (archaic) A fitting reward.
69. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
71. A small cake leavened with yeast.
72. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
75. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
76. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
77. Of or relating to or characteristic of Belgium or the Belgian people.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
2. American Revolutionary patriot.
3. Entice to do.
4. Indistinct or hazy in outline.
5. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
6. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
7. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
8. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
9. Informal terms for a mother.
10. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
11. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
12. The face of a timepiece.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. Common Indian weaverbird.
19. Very rich drop friedcake dusted with confectioners' sugar and served with lemon sauce or preserves.
22. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
23. Something considered choice to eat.
27. A city in east-central France on the Rhone River.
30. Flexible twig of a willow tree.
31. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
32. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
34. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
35. A cordial disposition.
36. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
37. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
42. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
45. Causing alarm or fear.
48. Used especially of fruits.
49. 10 grams.
51. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
54. A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior.
55. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
56. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
59. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
64. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
66. The basic unit of money in Peru.
67. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
70. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
73. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
74. Half the width of an em.
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