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1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
5. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
12. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. Kauri pine.
17. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
18. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
19. A workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding).
20. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
22. Covered with paving material.
24. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
25. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
29. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
32. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
44. Used of persons.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
49. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
50. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic.
53. 1 species.
56. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
57. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
60. A traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat.
62. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
63. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
64. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
68. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
69. A salesman who travels to call on customers.
73. A human limb.
74. Continuing at full strength or intensity.
76. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
77. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
78. Of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants.
79. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
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1. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
7. An enclosed space.
8. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
9. The spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism.
10. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
11. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
12. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
13. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
14. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
21. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
23. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
28. Again but in a new or different way.
30. Lower in esteem.
31. Russian country house.
33. A Roman poet.
34. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
36. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
37. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
38. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
39. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
41. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
42. A hat that is round and black and hard with a narrow brim.
43. The stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon.
45. Scale-like plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. A fraudulent business scheme.
52. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
54. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
55. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
58. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
59. The ending of a series or sequence.
61. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments.
65. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
66. Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals.
67. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
71. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
72. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
75. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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