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1. The entire physical structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being).
5. English monk and scholar (672-735).
10. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
13. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
14. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British).
17. Of or relating to the feet.
18. (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness.
19. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
21. The face or front of a building.
23. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
27. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
28. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
32. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
35. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
38. Speaking a Slavic language.
40. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
43. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. Not neat and tidy.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. An associate degree in nursing.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
55. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
63. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
67. Preserve of crushed fruit.
68. A light touch or stroke.
69. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. United States baseball player (born 1925).
2. Flexible twig of a willow tree.
3. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
4. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
5. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
6. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
7. A doctor's degree in education.
8. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
9. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
10. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
11. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
12. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
20. Very light colored.
22. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
24. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
25. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. 36th President of the United States.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
34. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
36. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
41. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
42. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
45. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
48. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
56. A Hindu prince or king in India.
58. The bill in a restaurant.
59. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
60. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
61. Extremely pleasing.
64. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
65. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
66. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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