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1. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
4. An informal conversation.
10. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
15. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
16. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
18. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
22. An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.
23. Be fully aware or cognizant of.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. The eleventh month of the civil year.
30. A flexible container with a single opening.
32. A light touch or stroke.
34. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
36. An informal term for a father.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
42. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
43. Humorously vulgar.
46. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
49. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order.
51. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
52. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
54. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
59. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
65. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
67. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
68. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
69. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
70. The basic unit of money in Romania.
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1. On the positive side or higher end of a scale.
2. Type genus of the Ranidae.
3. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
4. Free from dirt or impurities.
5. An awkward stupid person.
6. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
8. A city in northern India.
9. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
11. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
12. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
17. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
19. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
21. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
24. At any time.
28. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
31. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
33. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
35. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
37. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
40. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
44. Of or relating to or toward the cheek.
45. A Mid-Atlantic state.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. An unofficial association of people or groups.
50. A genus of Ploceidae.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
53. In bed.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
55. (informal) Exceptionally good.
56. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
57. A slender double-reed instrument.
58. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
60. Top part of an apron.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A boy or man.
66. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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