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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
10. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
15. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
16. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
18. A town in central Belgium.
19. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
22. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
23. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
25. Informal terms for a mother.
27. A state in midwestern United States.
28. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
31. A genus of Platalea.
33. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
35. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
38. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
40. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
41. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
42. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
44. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
48. Extremely pleasing.
50. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
53. A telegram sent abroad.
57. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
58. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
62. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
63. One thousandth of a second.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Black tropical American cuckoo.
67. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
68. Jordan's port.
69. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
7. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
8. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
9. Basic principles of the cosmos.
10. Highly excited.
11. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
12. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
17. A bottle with a stopper.
20. A Russian river.
21. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
24. Toward the mouth or oral region.
26. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
29. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
30. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
36. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
37. A human limb.
39. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
43. An enclosed space.
45. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
46. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
47. Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924).
49. The cry made by sheep.
51. A wound made by cutting.
52. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
54. Divulge information or secrets.
55. A narrow way or road.
56. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
59. The basic unit of money in Albania.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
62. Informal terms for a mother.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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