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1. South African term for `boss'.
5. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
11. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
15. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
16. The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time.
17. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
18. A large quantity of written matter.
19. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
20. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. (used informally) Very small.
24. Chinese tea leaves that have been semi-fermented before being dried.
26. Any of various plants of the genus Aralia.
29. A radioactive transuranic element.
31. (informal) Of the highest quality.
35. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
37. Hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike.
41. Jordan's port.
43. Any competition.
46. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
47. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
48. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
52. An elaborate song for solo voice.
53. Travel up, "We ascended the mountain".
56. Hidden and difficult to see.
58. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
61. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
62. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
64. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
67. With laces not tied.
71. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
72. Being or passing over or across the sea.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
79. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
80. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
81. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
2. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
3. Jordan's port.
4. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
5. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
6. United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961).
7. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
8. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. A forbidding stronghold.
11. Having removed clothing.
12. A white powder with a pleasant taste and odor.
13. The complete duration of something.
14. A crosspiece between the legs of a chair.
22. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
27. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
28. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens.
30. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
32. English economist who argued that the laws of supply and demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823).
33. Enter drop by drop, as of medication into an eye.
34. Heat again.
36. Offering fun and gaiety.
38. Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce.
39. The first canonical hour.
40. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
45. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
51. Of or related to the cornea.
54. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
55. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
57. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
59. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
60. Bar temporarily.
63. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
65. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
66. Divisible by two.
68. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
69. Very dark black.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. The capital and largest city of Japan.
74. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
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