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1. An awkward stupid person.
4. Of or relating to or involving an area.
9. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
13. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
14. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
15. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
16. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. Crowd or pack to capacity.
19. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
20. Capital of modern Macedonia.
22. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
25. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
28. A deep bow.
31. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
34. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
38. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
42. A state in midwestern United States.
43. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
45. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
46. Long and thin and often limp.
48. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
49. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. Make less active or intense.
59. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
61. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
62. An island republic on Nauru Island.
63. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
64. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
67. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
68. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
69. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
70. A rapid bustling commotion.
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1. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
2. Affected manners intended to impress others.
3. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
4. A state in northwestern North America.
5. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
6. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
12. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
17. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
21. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
23. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
24. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
26. A genus of Psittacidae.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
30. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
32. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
33. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
35. Informal terms for a mother.
39. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
44. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
47. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
50. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
52. Located at or near the back of an animal.
53. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
58. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
60. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
65. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
66. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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