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1. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
4. One of the three Furies.
10. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. French novelist.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
20. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
23. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
27. Jordan's port.
33. Offering fun and gaiety.
34. An accountant certified by the state.
35. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
36. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking.
41. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
43. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
48. South African term for `boss'.
51. A bachelor's degree in science.
53. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
54. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
58. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
63. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
64. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
65. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
66. On or toward the lee.
67. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
68. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
70. Unknown god.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.
3. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
7. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
8. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
9. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
10. A small cake leavened with yeast.
11. A city in northern India.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
17. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. English monk and scholar (672-735).
24. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
25. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. God of love and erotic desire.
29. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
30. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
31. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
32. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
38. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
40. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
44. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
47. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
49. Jordan's port.
50. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
55. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
59. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
61. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
62. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
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