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1. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
10. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
13. A relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons.
14. Regional and archaic.
15. Tag the base runner to get him out.
16. How long something has existed.
17. A loud harsh or strident noise.
19. Obvious and dull.
21. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
28. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
30. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
33. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. 36th President of the United States.
40. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
43. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
45. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
47. Before noon.
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
49. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
56. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
59. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
61. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
63. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
64. Jordan's port.
67. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
68. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
69. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
3. Chief port of Yemen.
4. A telegram sent abroad.
5. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
6. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
7. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
8. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
9. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
10. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
18. Extremely pleasing.
20. In bed.
22. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
25. An accountant certified by the state.
27. Type genus of the Majidae.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. An informal term for a father.
32. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
34. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
36. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
37. A lyric poet.
41. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
42. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. Covered with paving material.
50. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
51. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
52. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
53. On or toward the lee.
54. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
58. Avatar of Vishnu.
60. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
62. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
65. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
66. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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