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1. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
4. One who reveals confidential information in return for money.
12. Any high mountain.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. Set of bells hung in a bell tower.
17. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
18. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
20. Urge or force (a person) to an action.
22. A pad of paper for keeping notes.
25. Saber-toothed tigers.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
29. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
33. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
36. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
37. A symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose.
40. Speaking a Slavic language.
41. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
43. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
45. The sixth day of the week.
46. South American cavy.
50. Unknown god.
51. A projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint.
53. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
55. Poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products.
58. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
59. A master's degree in business.
60. A Russian river.
62. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
71. Included seven times in every 19 years.
73. A boy or man.
74. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
75. A light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana.
77. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
78. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
79. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
80. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
2. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
3. (informal) Very tired.
4. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
7. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
8. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
9. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
10. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
11. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
12. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
13. A floor covering.
14. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
19. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
21. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
23. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
24. Inability to walk.
26. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
30. An athlete who bounds or leaps (as in basketball).
31. Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking.
32. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
34. Russian mathematician (1856-1922).
35. Fly a plane.
38. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
39. (prefix) Within.
42. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
44. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
47. Covered with a roof.
48. Fallow deer.
49. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
52. A federally chartered savings bank.
54. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
56. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
57. Leather covering the toe of a boot or shoe and reinforcing or decorating it.
61. United States baseball player (born 1925).
63. A three-tone Chadic language.
64. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
65. A quantity of no importance.
66. A river in western Asia.
67. A hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity).
68. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
70. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
72. The basic unit of money in Albania.
76. Informal terms for a mother.
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