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1. A Loloish language.
5. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
10. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. (in Scotland) A child.
15. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
19. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
20. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
21. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
23. Treated with oil.
26. Informal terms for a mother.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. The bill in a restaurant.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. United States singer and film actor (1904-1977).
36. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
40. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
41. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
44. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
52. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
54. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
57. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
61. How long something has existed.
62. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
65. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
66. Tag the base runner to get him out.
67. Turn into gas.
69. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
71. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
72. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
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1. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
2. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
3. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
4. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
5. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
6. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
7. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
8. (informal) Exceptionally good.
9. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
10. An informal term for a father.
11. Jordan's port.
12. Wood of a sumac.
17. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
22. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
24. Genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
30. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
33. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
35. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
37. A Nilotic language.
38. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
39. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
42. An informal term for a father.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
50. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
51. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
53. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
57. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
58. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
59. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
60. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
63. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
64. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
68. A soft silvery metallic element.
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