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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
10. Extremely pleasing.
13. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
14. Free and relaxed in manner.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
18. A light touch or stroke.
19. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
24. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
26. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
29. A member of a social and cultural elite especially a descendant of an Old New England family.
32. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
41. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
42. Very dark black.
43. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. Not necessarily inaudible but not heard.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. The basic unit of money in Iran.
59. A particular environment or walk of life.
62. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
63. Expel, as of gases and odors.
64. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
65. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
66. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
67. A theatrical performer.
68. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. Divisible by two.
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. 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.
8. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
9. Suggestive of the supernatural.
10. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
11. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
17. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
23. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
25. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
28. Tall hat.
30. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
31. In bed.
33. One thousandth of a second.
34. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
39. Type genus of the Nepidae.
40. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
41. 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.
45. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
46. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
49. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
50. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
52. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
53. A Hindu prince or king in India.
54. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
55. That is to say.
56. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
57. Chief port of Yemen.
60. A newt in its terrestrial stage of development.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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