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A challenge from psnz requested a puzzle with at least 60% loanwords used in English. At least 6 of the words must have a Hungarian origin. I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I enjoyed compiling it.
Author: windrush - Diff: Harder

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      1. Hungarian dance, now International word for a style of music
      5. From French for wild, looking gaunt and tired
      9. From Old German dialect, a meadow
      10. From Greek, postmortem examination
      11. From Hungarian, light cavalry (pl.)
      12. Modern English form of various European greetings
      13. Jamaican group calls this Ethiopian emperor god (3,6)
      16. Pub entertainment, from the Japanese for 'empty orchestra' (pl.)
      20. Style of fortified wine, Hungarian origin
      23. Type of pens, named for their Hungarian inventor (see 23D)
      26. Fountain below Mt Helicon, dedicated to the Muses
      30. From French, places for books
      33. From Greek, to prance like a goat OR an edible bud
      35. Of uncertain origin, flightless bird mostly in the Antarctic
      37. From French, your parents' sisters
      38. Germanic origin; the Algonquian name is Wapiti
      39. From Latin, relating to atomic energy or weapons
      40. From Latin, to shed eggs

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      1. From Hungarian, wagon, now a bus in English
      2. City in Turkey
      3. Proof of qualification, from Greek for folded paper
      4. More crafty, underhanded
      5. From French, wall - ditch to exclude livestock from gardens, pl.(2-3)
      6. Theory that the whole is much more than the sum of parts, from German
      7. Arabic, outer garment, also a kind of cloth in English
      8. From Old French, fate, meant to happen
      14. Type of British beer, from Germanic - Dutch
      15. From Latin, Old Norse, French, meaning chest or box
      16. From Japanese for ornamental goldfish
      17. Kanga's little one
      18. Maori name for a ground-nesting NZ parrot
      19. Jamaican style of music
      21. British term for a senior citizen, inits.
      22. From Old French, Middle English, meaning time of life
      23. Writing instrument, sing. (See 23A)
      24. From Old High German, to steal or plunder
      25. Legal decree, from Old French, origin Late Latin
      27. Exclamation of surprise
      28. American fish, Stenodus leucichthys, meaning unknown in French
      29. Hungarian to English, hot spice from ground capsicums
      31. Situated within
      32. Hungarian peaked military cap, worn in most armies in 19thC
      34. Book by Laurie Lee, 'Cider With ___'
      36. Beluga whale that made human sounds, died 1999