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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
11. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
15. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
16. Annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles.
17. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
20. (Roman mythology) Goddess of agriculture.
21. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
23. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
25. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
26. A city in northeastern Ohio.
27. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
29. To or from every one of two or more (considered individually).
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
37. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
41. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
42. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. An island of central Hawaii.
50. A weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks.
54. A city in the western Netherlands.
55. Used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles.
57. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
60. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
61. A fraudulent business scheme.
64. Indigo bush.
66. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
70. An accidental happening.
74. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
75. Software that is provided without charge.
77. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
78. How long something has existed.
79. South American caracara.
80. An honorary law degree.
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1. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
2. God of fire.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
5. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
6. Fiddler crabs.
7. Of or relating to or characteristic of Texas or its residents.
8. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
9. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract.
10. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
11. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
12. The 3rd planet from the sun.
13. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
14. Of or in or relating to the nose.
22. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel.
31. A state of extreme dishonor.
32. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
36. Have supper.
38. A voluptuously beautiful young woman.
39. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
40. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
43. Intelligence derived from non-communications electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources).
44. An audiotape recording of sound.
48. Type genus of the Nepidae.
49. Lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle.
51. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
52. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
53. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
56. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
58. Person who does no work.
59. Greek mythology.
62. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
63. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
65. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
67. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
68. Rounded like an egg.
69. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
71. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
72. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
73. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
76. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
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