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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. (informal) Someone who is a detective. 12.The compass point that is one point
east of due south.
15. A city in the European part of Russia.
16. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
17. An accidental happening.
18. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
19. Darkened with overcast.
20.The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
22. Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals.
24. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
25. Made of fir or pine.
28. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
34. A very young lamb.
36. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
39.The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins
to destroy men and animals or food.
40. Occurring or done each day.
42. Obvious and dull.
43. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
44. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
46. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
47. A state in New England.
49. A genus of Mustelidae.
52. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
56. An associate degree in nursing.
57. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
58. Suggestive of the supernatural.
61. Lie adjacent to another.
63. Squash bugs.
64. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. Showing both bilateral and radial symmetry.
71. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
74. A loud harsh or strident noise.
75. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
76. Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged.
77.The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. Slow to learn or understand.
2. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
3. Covered with paving material.
4. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
5. Of or relating to or involving an area.
6. Deprive (infants) of mother's milk.
7. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
8. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
9. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. (Brit) An area of open or forested country.
12. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
13. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
14. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
21. A town in central Kansas.
23. German dramatist (1813-1863).
26. Made of or resembling lace.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
30. Type genus of the Anatidae.
31. A city in north-central India.
32. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
33. Containing salt.
35. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank. 37.The blood group whose red cells carry
both the A and B antigens.
38. Any plant of the genus Inula.
41. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
45. (Spanish) Sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water.
48. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
50. Increasing in quantity or value.
51. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream.
53. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel.
54. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
55. An expression of greeting.
59. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
60. A native-born Israeli.
62. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
65. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
66. Anything that serves as an enticement. 67.The inner and longer of the two bones
of the human forearm.
70. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
72. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
73. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.