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1. A source of oil.
4. A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa.
10. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
13. Used of a single unit or thing.
14. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
15. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
16. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
18. In bed.
19. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. The distance around a person's body.
24. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
25. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
27. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
30. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
31. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
35. An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito.
38. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
40. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
41. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
45. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
46. An honorary law degree.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
50. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
52. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
56. Highly excited.
60. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
62. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
63. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
66. One of the common people.
67. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
2. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
3. Not only so, but.
4. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
5. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
6. Type genus of the Anatidae.
7. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
8. Water frozen in the solid state.
9. Ask for and get free.
10. Little known Kamarupan languages.
11. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
12. A major god.
17. A deep bow.
21. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
23. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
29. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
32. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
33. Using speech rather than writing.
34. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. Any high mountain.
37. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Lower in esteem.
48. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
51. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
52. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
53. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
54. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
55. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
56. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
57. A British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters.
58. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
61. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
62. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
64. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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