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1. A man who serves as a sailor.
4. Jordan's port.
9. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. Big-eyed scad.
15. Type genus of the Anatidae.
16. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
18. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
19. A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval).
20. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
22. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
24. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
26. A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep.
27. The act of scanning.
29. A light touch or stroke.
30. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. The square of a body of any size of type.
37. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
39. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
44. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
45. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
49. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
51. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
53. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
56. Step on it.
57. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
61. The eighth month of the civil year.
62. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
63. The ending of a series or sequence.
64. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
65. The seed of the cereal grass.
66. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
67. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
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1. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
6. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. A human limb.
9. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
10. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
11. An oil port in southern Iraq.
12. State in northeastern India.
17. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
21. An associate degree in nursing.
23. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
25. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
28. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
32. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
33. A flexible container with a single opening.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
38. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
42. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
43. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
46. In a gay manner.
47. A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains.
48. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
50. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
52. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
54. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
55. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
58. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
59. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
60. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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