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1. Rate of revolution of a motor.
4. Making great mental demands.
10. 10 grams.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. A city of southeastern Mexico.
15. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
16. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
18. A songbook containing a collection of hymns.
20. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
21. Fiddler crabs.
23. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Twist or braid together, interlace.
27. Fraught with extreme danger.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
34. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
37. Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears.
39. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
41. The square of a body of any size of type.
42. Short and fat.
43. A genus of Malayan tree.
46. An associate degree in applied science.
48. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
49. A language of Australian aborigines.
53. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
60. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
61. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
64. Used of a single unit or thing.
65. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
66. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
67. A boy or man.
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1. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British).
2. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
3. 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.
4. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
5. Tag the base runner to get him out.
6. Ruddy duck.
7. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
8. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
9. A branch of the Tai languages.
10. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
11. The basic unit of money in China.
12. Cut off the testicles.
17. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
19. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
22. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
26. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
28. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
29. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
32. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
33. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
40. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. Of or relating to the nervous system.
47. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
50. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
51. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
52. Large luxurious car.
54. Type genus of the Ranidae.
55. In bed.
58. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
62. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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