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1. A bachelor's degree in library science.
5. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
11. Temporary living quarters.
15. The act of drawing or hauling something.
16. Wool of the alpaca.
17. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
18. A French abbot.
19. Put (things or places) in order.
20. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
21. The cry made by sheep.
27. Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading.
33. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
34. A city and port in northern Jutland.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
41. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
42. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
44. Someone who upholds or maintains.
48. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. A genus of Ploceidae.
55. English physician (1624-1689).
59. Oblong cream puff.
63. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
64. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,960 feet high).
67. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
68. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
69. An apparatus for performing a titration.
70. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
71. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
72. (law) The privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land).
73. Either extremity of something that has length.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
4. 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.
5. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
6. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
7. Thin and fit.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. (informal) Of the highest quality.
10. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
11. A clay pipe with a short stem.
12. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
13. Any of various small biting flies.
14. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
22. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
23. (informal) Exceptionally good.
24. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
25. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
26. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
28. A city in northwestern Syria.
29. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. Outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog.
32. Not subject to change or variation especially in behavior.
35. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
36. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
37. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
40. (Akkadian) God ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead.
43. Wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person.
45. Look at with amorous intentions.
46. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
47. (Greek) A benevolent spirit.
50. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
53. Related on the mother's side.
56. A university in Connecticut.
57. A book of the New Testament.
58. (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree.
60. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. Extremely robust.
62. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
65. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
66. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
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