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1. Adopted in order to deceive.
5. A motley assortment of things.
11. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
16. A genus of Scolopacidae.
17. A quantity of no importance.
18. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
19. A medium to dark brownish yellow color.
21. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
23. A quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep.
24. A source of danger.
27. Social status or position conferred by a system based on class.
28. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
30. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
33. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
39. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
40. (of time) Having passed or slipped by.
43. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
49. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
52. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
55. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
56. (of weapons or instruments) Causing suffering and pain.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
65. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
67. A member of an ancient people living east of Babylonia as early as 4000 BC.
70. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
71. Relating to or used in making cabinets.
72. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
73. The cry made by sheep.
74. A festival featuring African-American culture.
75. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An unforeseen obstacle.
2. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
3. Cause to be embarrassed.
4. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
5. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
6. A human limb.
7. A man who serves as a sailor.
8. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
9. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
10. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
11. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
12. Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity.
13. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
14. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
20. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
22. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
25. A Hindu prince or king in India.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
31. A European river.
32. (informal) Roused to anger.
34. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
35. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
36. An appearance of reflected light.
37. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
38. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
41. Sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something.
42. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
44. United States film maker (1897-1991).
46. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
48. Erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds.
50. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
53. A city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port.
54. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
57. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. Jordan's port.
61. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
63. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
64. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
66. Seed of a pea plant.
68. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
69. A light touch or stroke.
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