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1. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
4. Having an ulcer or canker.
12. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
15. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
16. A businessperson engaged in retail trade.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
20. Covered with or consisting of rust.
21. Tag the base runner to get him out.
22. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
23. Material used to daub walls.
26. Covered with paving material.
28. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
30. Before noon.
34. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
38. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
41. The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capitol of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia.
44. Weapons considered collectively.
45. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
47. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
48. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
51. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
53. A pad of paper for keeping notes.
56. English poet (born in 1930).
57. The eleventh month of the civil year.
59. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
60. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
62. Cut the head of.
64. The shoemaker's trade.
70. A straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions.
71. A small republic in the eastern Pyrenees between Spain and France.
74. The cry made by sheep.
75. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
77. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
78. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
79. A flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it.
80. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
3. Someone who is regarded as contemptible.
4. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
5. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
6. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
7. A very light brown.
8. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
9. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
10. Become or cause to become soft or liquid.
11. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
24. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
25. An unusually small individual.
27. A primeval personification of air and breath.
29. The state of being unsure of something.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
33. Heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents).
35. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
36. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
37. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
39. Muslim name for God.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
43. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
46. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
49. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
50. Adapt anew.
52. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
54. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
55. (in India and Burma) A member of an armed gang of robbers.
58. Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.
61. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
63. Located at or near the back of an animal.
65. A small nail.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
68. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
69. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
72. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
73. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
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