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1. Top part of an apron.
4. Cause to be attached.
10. Extremely pleasing.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A horse-drawn carriage in India.
15. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
17. Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation.
18. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
19. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
21. Of or relating to or characteristic of Semites.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
27. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
29. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
33. Ground snakes.
36. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. Black tropical American cuckoo.
42. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
43. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
45. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
49. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
52. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
57. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. Squash bugs.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
64. Old breed of tall swift keen-eyed hunting dogs resembling greyhounds.
66. Preserve of crushed fruit.
67. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
68. European herb resembling vetch.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
3. Serving as or forming a base.
4. A city in northern India.
5. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
6. A slight amount or degree of difference.
7. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
8. The leg from the knee to foot.
9. (Greek mythology) The goddess of health.
10. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
11. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
12. A person who evokes boredom.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
25. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
26. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
28. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
30. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
32. A young woman making her debut into society.
34. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
35. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
41. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
44. The cry made by sheep.
46. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
48. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
54. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
55. The income arising from land or other property.
56. A Hindu prince or king in India.
59. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
60. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
63. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
65. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
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