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1. An ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center.
5. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
9. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
13. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
14. American novelist (1909-1955).
15. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
16. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC).
17. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
18. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
19. The capital of Croatia.
20. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A small nail.
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
38. One who works hard at boring tasks.
41. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
43. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
45. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
51. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
53. Toward the mouth or oral region.
57. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
58. Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity.
60. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
61. (Irish) The sea personified.
62. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
64. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
65. A doctor's degree in education.
66. Source of a tough elastic wood.
67. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
68. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
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1. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
2. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
3. Go "ding dong", like a bell.
4. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..
5. A motley assortment of things.
6. How long something has existed.
7. The food served and eaten at one time.
8. Wig for men fashionable in 17th-18th centuries.
9. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
12. Appeal or request earnestly.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
27. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. A light touch or stroke.
31. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
33. Jordan's port.
36. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
37. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
39. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
40. A city and port in northern Jutland.
41. The food served and eaten at one time.
42. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
44. In a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug.
47. State in northeastern India.
49. A town in north central Oklahoma.
50. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
51. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
52. The basic unit of money in Botswana.
54. Deeply moved.
55. A French abbot.
56. Italian actress best known for her performances in tragic roles (1858-1924).
59. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
63. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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