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1. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
5. English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika.
10. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
13. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
14. Greek mythology.
15. Inquire about.
16. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
17. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. A port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world.
20. 1 species.
22. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
23. Music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
28. An affirmative.
29. A doctor's degree in education.
31. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
34. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
36. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
42. A flexible container with a single opening.
43. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
44. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
48. The cry made by sheep.
51. A deep bow.
55. Industrial city of Belarus southeast of Minsk.
57. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
58. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
61. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
62. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
63. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
64. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
65. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
66. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
2. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
3. A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing.
4. Someone who rides a sled.
5. (informal) Flashily stylish.
6. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
7. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
8. English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement (1792-1866).
9. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
10. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
11. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
12. Jordan's port.
18. The address where a person lives.
21. (informal) Of the highest quality.
24. Not only so, but.
25. Indigo bush.
27. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
33. Any plant of the genus Erica.
35. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
41. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
45. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
46. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
47. Affect with wonder.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
52. An Asian river between China and Russia.
53. A narrow way or road.
54. God of love and erotic desire.
55. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
56. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
57. An associate degree in nursing.
59. An informal term for a father.
60. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
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