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1. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
4. The Swiss Confederation escaped Hapsburg domination by their victory in 1386.
12. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
15. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
16. Light carriage.
17. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
20. 1 species.
22. By bad luck.
24. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
26. God of fire.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
30. Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky.
34. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
35. Providing enjoyment.
39. One of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers.
43. A piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit.
44. A flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters.
45. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.
46. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
47. A period of time spent sleeping.
48. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
50. Line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game.
53. A feeling of intense anger.
55. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
56. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
58. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
60. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
61. On or toward the lee.
63. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
65. An informal term for a father.
69. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
72. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
74. Black tropical American cuckoo.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
78. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
79. Testacean rhizopods.
80. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
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1. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
2. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
3. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
4. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint.
7. Cry weakly or softly.
8. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
9. A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.
10. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
11. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
12. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
13. A particular environment or walk of life.
14. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses.
21. A town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England.
23. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
25. A white trivalent metallic element.
29. A decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping.
31. Move out of a dock.
32. A stringed instrument usually having six strings.
33. Being or passing over or across the sea.
36. An elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond.
37. Jordan's port.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
40. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
41. Complacently or inanely foolish.
42. A native American tent.
49. Greek mythology.
51. A university town in southeast Wyoming.
52. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
54. Move away from a place into another direction.
57. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
59. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
62. 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.
64. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. Material used to daub walls.
68. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
70. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
71. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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