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1. The last (12th) month of the year.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. Gone by.
13. Being one more than two.
14. Wool of the alpaca.
15. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
16. An honorary arts degree.
18. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
19. Affect with wonder.
21. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
23. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
25. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
26. Largest known toad species.
28. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
30. A green transparent form of beryl.
33. A woman who tells fortunes.
37. Set down according to a plan.
38. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. Term of address for a man.
42. Used of old persons or old trees.
44. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
46. The basic unit of money in Albania.
47. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. A Loloish language.
53. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
56. A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord.
60. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
63. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
64. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
65. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
67. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
68. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
69. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
70. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
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1. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. A large and densely populated urban area.
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
7. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. The cry made by sheep.
10. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
11. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
12. A sign of something about to happen.
17. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
20. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
22. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
24. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
27. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
29. The capital and largest city of Norway.
31. A female domestic.
32. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
36. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
39. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
43. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
45. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
49. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
54. The 4th planet from the sun.
55. A French abbot.
57. A narrow way or road.
58. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
59. Pulled or drawn tight.
61. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. Informal terms for a mother.
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