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1. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
4. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
10. Of southern Europe.
13. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
14. Without qualification.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Growing old.
18. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
19. Tag the base runner to get him out.
20. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
21. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
23. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
29. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
33. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
35. Type genus of the Amiidae.
38. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
39. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
41. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
48. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
51. Large strong hand (as of a fighter).
53. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
54. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
58. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
59. Found along western Atlantic coast.
63. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
64. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
65. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
66. On or toward the lee.
67. Noisy talk.
68. Accord or comport with.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
2. Being one more than seven.
3. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
4. A motley assortment of things.
5. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
6. Goddess of fate.
7. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
8. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
9. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
10. God of fire.
11. Singing jazz.
12. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
17. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
22. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
26. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
27. British informal term.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
31. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
34. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
37. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production.
44. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
46. Evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone.
49. Type genus of the Caviidae.
50. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
52. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
53. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
55. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
60. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
61. The airforce of Great Britain.
62. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
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