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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
15. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
16. Befitting a mother.
17. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
18. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
19. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
20. A boy or man.
21. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
23. A noisy or scolding or domineering woman.
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
29. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
33. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
34. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
40. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
43. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
44. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
45. (medieval) A large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body.
47. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
48. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
51. Not suitable for food.
54. A state in southeastern United States.
55. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
56. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
60. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
68. 10 grams.
70. Mediterranean liliaceous plants.
73. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
74. The residue that remains when something is burned.
75. Squirrel monkeys.
76. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
77. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
78. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
79. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
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1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
3. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
4. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
5. Supplied with louvers for ventilation.
6. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
7. A human female who does housework.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
10. Second brightest star in Perseus.
11. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
12. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
13. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
14. Wood of any of various alder trees.
22. Having or localized centrally at a focus.
24. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
26. Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns.
28. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
30. Squash bugs.
31. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
32. A three-tone Chadic language.
35. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
36. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. Any small compartment.
39. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
42. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
46. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
52. Place or set apart.
53. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
57. Lower in esteem.
58. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
59. A hard copal derived from an African tree.
61. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba.
62. An expression of greeting.
63. Of or relating to or involving an area.
66. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
67. Characteristic of false pride.
69. Military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces.
71. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
72. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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