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1. Rate of revolution of a motor.
4. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. North African gerbils.
18. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
19. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
20. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
21. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
23. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
27. A fraudulent business scheme.
29. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
35. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
38. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
40. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
41. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
45. An absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
54. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
58. The airforce of Great Britain.
63. A periodic paperback publication.
64. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
65. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
66. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
69. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Any plant of the genus Erica.
3. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
4. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
5. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
6. The content of cognition.
7. American Revolutionary patriot.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
10. The sixth month of the civil year.
11. Common Indian weaverbird.
12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
17. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
22. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
30. A light touch or stroke.
32. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
33. American novelist (1909-1955).
34. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
36. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
43. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
46. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
53. A town in north central Oklahoma.
54. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
55. An Asian river between China and Russia.
56. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
57. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
59. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
60. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
61. 10 grams.
62. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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