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1. A French abbot.
5. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
12. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. A sudden short attack.
16. (plural) Rare collector's items.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. In bed.
19. A unit of weight used in Asia.
20. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
21. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
23. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
25. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
28. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
30. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
34. Pouch used in the shipment of mail.
38. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
39. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
41. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
42. Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness.
45. Worn by rubbing or friction.
49. 100 puls equal 1 afghani.
50. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
51. The muscular back part of the shank.
52. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
54. Being one more than one.
55. Register formally.
57. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
59. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
60. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
61. Being six more than thirty.
63. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
68. Having help.
72. Cheap and shoddy.
73. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
78. Winter aconite.
80. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
81. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
82. (British) Liable to payment of rates or taxes.
83. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. A coffin along with its stand.
4. A doctor's degree in education.
5. A large fleet.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
8. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
9. A small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged.
10. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
11. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
12. The face of a timepiece.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
22. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. Binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid.
27. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
29. (Welsh) A warrior god.
31. Someone (especially a German) who speaks a Germanic language.
32. A small piece of cloth.
33. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
35. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
36. Type genus of the Anguidae.
37. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
40. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
43. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. An inhabitant of an island.
47. The second largest city in Tunisia.
48. A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide.
53. Being two more than ninety.
56. Toward the mouth or oral region.
58. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
62. A ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
65. A (usually) large and scholarly book.
66. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
67. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. Very dark black.
71. An informal term for a father.
74. A bachelor's degree in theology.
75. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
79. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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