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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
15. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
16. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
18. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
19. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
20. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
24. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
26. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
31. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. Not reflecting light.
38. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
40. The products of human creativity.
41. God of wealth and love.
43. Water buffalo of the Philippines.
46. In bed.
49. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. An informal term for a father.
59. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
61. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
64. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
65. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
66. French tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
68. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
69. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
70. A port city in southwestern Iran.
71. The basic unit of money in Albania.
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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
4. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
5. The square of a body of any size of type.
6. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. A polite name for any woman.
9. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
10. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
11. Jordan's port.
12. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
17. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
21. An informal term for a father.
22. (informal) Of the highest quality.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
34. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
35. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
36. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
39. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
42. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
44. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
48. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
51. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
52. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
54. A sudden short attack.
56. Absent without permission.
57. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
58. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
60. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
62. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
63. The habitation of wild animals.
67. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
68. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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