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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
5. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
10. Tag the base runner to get him out.
13. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
14. Act together, as of organisms.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
18. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
19. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
20. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
21. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
23. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
24. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
26. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
31. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
35. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
39. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
40. A state in midwestern United States.
41. The cry made by sheep.
43. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
44. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
46. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
53. Free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms.
56. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
60. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
61. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
64. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
65. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
66. Placed crosswise.
68. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. Brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets.
71. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
2. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
3. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
4. Made of wood of the aspen tree n.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. 11th President of the United States.
7. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
8. Being nine more than ninety.
9. Workplace for the teaching or practice of an art.
10. A quantity of no importance.
11. Advanced in years.
12. A lyric poet.
17. A woman gossip.
22. An informal term for a father.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
29. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. A city in northern India.
34. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
36. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
37. Informal terms for a mother.
38. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
42. A branch of the Tai languages.
45. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
47. A person forced to flee from home or country.
49. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
50. Deciduous shrub of North America.
52. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
57. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
58. A small cake leavened with yeast.
59. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
62. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
63. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
64. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
67. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
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