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1. New Zealand conifer.
5. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
10. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
14. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. Type genus of the Majidae.
17. Goddess of fertility.
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
22. English monk and scholar (672-735).
24. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
25. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
27. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
29. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
33. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
34. A doctor's degree in religion.
35. Before noon.
38. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. The cry made by sheep.
41. A resource.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
50. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
54. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink.
56. Constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches.
58. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
61. Jordan's port.
62. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
63. Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
66. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
67. Not reflecting light.
68. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Informal terms for a mother.
2. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
3. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
4. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
5. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
6. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
7. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
8. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
9. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
26. (informal) Exceptionally good.
28. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
30. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
31. Being one more than two.
32. An informal term for a father.
36. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
37. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
39. Any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon.
40. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
43. Having a gradual increase in width.
45. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
46. Related to or located at the back.
48. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
55. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. Avatar of Vishnu.
59. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
64. Informal terms for a mother.
65. 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.
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