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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
5. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
10. Any of various units of capacity.
13. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
14. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. (in boxing) The act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily.
18. Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter.
20. Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine.
21. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
25. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
26. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
29. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
31. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
38. Fiddler crabs.
40. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
41. A small piece of cloth.
42. The fourth month of the civil year.
45. The residue that remains when something is burned.
48. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
49. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
51. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
55. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
57. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
58. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
59. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
62. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
63. English essayist (1775-1834).
64. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
66. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
67. An appreciable consequence (especially a lessening).
68. Greek mythology.
69. Having only superficial plausibility.
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1. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
2. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
3. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
4. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
5. A colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis.
6. Unknown god.
7. One million periods per second.
8. (archaic) Of persons.
9. Tag the base runner to get him out.
10. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
17. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
19. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light.
24. An awkward stupid person.
27. The last (12th) month of the year.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
34. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
40. Unknown god.
43. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
44. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
46. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
47. A reddish-brown chloride of heme.
50. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
52. A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard).
53. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
54. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
56. A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
65. Informal terms for a mother.
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