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1. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
4. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
9. Humble request for help.
13. Towards the side away from the wind.
14. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
15. Deeply moved.
16. A decree that prohibits something.
17. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia.
18. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
19. The final stages of an extended process of negotiation.
21. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
23. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
25. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
26. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
28. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
30. Lower in esteem.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
36. The cry made by sheep.
39. A light touch or stroke.
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
48. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
51. A motley assortment of things.
54. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
56. A doctor's degree in music.
59. A humming noise.
60. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
63. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
64. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
65. Become imbued.
67. (informal) Roused to anger.
68. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
69. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
2. Lacking excess flesh.
3. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
4. (usually plural) A destructive action.
5. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
6. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
9. A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory.
10. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
11. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
12. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
20. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
27. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
29. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
31. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
37. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
38. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
43. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
44. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
45. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
49. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
50. A lake in northwestern Russia.
52. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
53. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
55. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
58. An informal term for a father.
61. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
62. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
66. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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