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1. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
4. Form or weave into a braid or braids.
10. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
15. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
19. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
21. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
22. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
24. A doctor's degree in religion.
27. Of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era).
31. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
32. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
33. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
37. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
42. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
44. The cry made by sheep.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A Hindu prince or king in India.
50. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
53. A Mid-Atlantic state.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
58. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
60. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
62. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
63. A port city in southwestern Iran.
66. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
67. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
68. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
69. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
3. The content of cognition.
4. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
5. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
6. (prefix) Within.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
9. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
10. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
11. Being eight more than fifty.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
18. The unlimited 3-dimensional expanse in which everything is located.
20. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
26. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
29. A quantity of no importance.
30. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
34. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
35. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
36. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
39. In bed.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. An informal term for a father.
45. Slightly open.
47. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
49. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
51. (Roman mythology) God of love.
52. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
54. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
55. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
56. Rounded like an egg.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
64. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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