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1. Select as an alternative.
4. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
10. Any high mountain.
13. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
14. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. A landlocked principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.
18. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
21. Used of pens.
23. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
26. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
27. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
30. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. Treated with iodine.
38. (Irish) The sea personified.
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
48. A form of Japanese poetry.
51. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
54. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
56. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. The square of a body of any size of type.
58. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
59. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
62. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
64. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
65. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Type genus of the Pipidae.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
5. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
6. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
7. Temporary military shelter.
8. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
9. Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).
10. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
11. A record in which commercial accounts are recorded.
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
22. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
28. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
29. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
33. A Russian river.
34. The event of dying or departure from life.
35. The act of scanning.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
41. Temporary military shelter.
43. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
46. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
52. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
53. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
55. A lyric poet.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
63. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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