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1. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
4. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
10. Inquire about.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. Anneal or toughen by a process of gradually heating and cooling.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
18. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
19. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
20. The basic unit of money in Paraguay.
23. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. One thousandth of a second.
31. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
34. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
35. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. 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.
40. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
45. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
46. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
47. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
49. Not widely known.
51. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
57. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
61. An associate degree in applied science.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
63. A native of ancient Troy.
65. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
66. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
67. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
68. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific.
2. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
3. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
4. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
5. Half the width of an em.
6. The basic unit of money in Peru.
7. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
8. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
9. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
17. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
21. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
22. Fallow deer.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
28. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
29. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
38. A genus of Pleuronectidae.
39. Half the width of an em.
41. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. Informal terms for a mother.
44. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
50. A genus of Mustelidae.
52. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
53. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
54. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
56. Noisy talk.
58. Not divisible by two.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
60. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
64. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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