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1. (British) Sleep.
4. A mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
12. Inquire about.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Qualified for by right according to law.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
20. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
23. A strong positive emotion of regard and affection.
25. An associate degree in nursing.
26. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
29. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
32. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
33. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
37. A master's degree in religion.
39. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
41. Very attentive or observant.
42. withdraw from an organization or communion.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
50. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
51. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
57. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
59. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. A cgs unit of work or energy.
62. Any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup.
70. Innumerable but many.
71. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
73. Towards the side away from the wind.
74. Relating to or located near the organ that produces tears.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
78. Any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis.
79. A light touch or stroke.
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1. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
2. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
3. (Middle East) Usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling.
4. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
5. Black tropical American cuckoo.
6. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
7. The basic unit of money in Iran.
8. Thick cushion used as a seat.
9. Any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings.
10. Capital of the state of Montana.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
19. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
24. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
27. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
28. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
30. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
31. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
34. (of birds and animals) Tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind.
35. Mostly tropical songbird.
36. Cut or impressed into a surface.
38. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
43. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
44. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
45. Toward the mouth or oral region.
48. A Hindu prince or king in India.
52. (Greek mythology) The father of Odysseus.
53. An iconic mental representation.
55. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
56. A three-tone Chadic language.
69. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
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