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1. The dialect of Albanian spoken in southern Albania and in areas of Greece and Italy.
5. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
11. A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food.
15. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
16. A belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic.
17. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
18. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
19. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
28. Chew the cuds.
31. Used of hooves.
35. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
36. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
37. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
39. Towards the side away from the wind.
40. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. Small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs.
47. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
50. Genus of western North American low evergreen shrubs growing in dense tufts.
52. A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene.
53. Branch out like trees.
54. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
56. Obvious and dull.
58. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
60. A band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist.
62. Guiding star.
66. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
69. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
70. Compounds with the formula CHX3, where X is a halogen atom.
74. The month following February and preceding April.
75. A resident of Alabama.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
78. A great raja.
79. A light touch or stroke.
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1. A narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place v 1.
2. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
3. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
4. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
5. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
6. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
7. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
8. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
9. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
10. Being ten more than eighty.
11. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
12. A feeling of intense anger.
13. Slightly open.
14. Marked by skill in deception.
20. Spanish explorer who was the first European to explore the California coast (1550-1615).
22. A decree that prohibits something.
23. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
25. A flexible container with a single opening.
26. A student who studies excessively.
27. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
29. A family of Ural-Altaic languages.
30. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
32. Someone who believes in rule by an elite group.
33. Birch leaf miner.
34. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
38. Having or denoting a high range.
41. United by being of the same opinion.
42. The face of a timepiece.
44. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
46. The shape of something rotating rapidly.
48. Before noon.
60. Being one more than fifty.
62. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
66. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
68. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
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