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1. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
5. A group of southern Bantu languages.
10. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
13. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
14. A language group of the Hokan family.
15. (British) Your grandmother.
16. A fraudulent business scheme.
17. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. An awkward stupid person.
28. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
34. How long something has existed.
36. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
38. Not exempt from tax.
41. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
42. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
43. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
45. The basic unit of money on Malta.
46. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
48. A French abbot.
50. A compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive.
54. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
58. Clear to the mind.
59. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
62. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
63. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
64. In a foreign country.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
67. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
68. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
69. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
70. Half the width of an em.
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1. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Loose or flaccid body fat.
4. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
5. City in Sudan.
6. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
7. A transuranic element.
8. A quantity of no importance.
9. Not out.
10. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
11. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
12. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
18. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
20. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
22. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. Largest known toad species.
27. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
31. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
32. Perceive sound.
33. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
35. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
37. Treated with oil.
39. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
40. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
44. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
47. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. English monk and scholar (672-735).
51. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
52. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
53. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
55. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
56. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
57. Slightly open.
60. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
61. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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