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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
10. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
13. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
14. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. Lacking excess flesh.
17. Any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
22. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
24. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
28. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
30. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
33. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
34. Free from liquid or moisture.
35. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
43. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
48. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
49. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
51. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
53. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
56. A public square with room for pedestrians.
59. Curving inward.
61. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
62. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
63. Made afraid.
66. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
67. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
68. A large fleet.
69. The sound made by a pigeon v 1.
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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
2. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
3. Jordan's port.
4. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
5. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
6. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
7. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
8. A resource.
9. A doctor's degree in optometry.
10. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
11. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
12. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
18. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
21. A state in midwestern United States.
23. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
25. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
29. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
31. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
32. Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail.
38. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. (of time) Having passed or slipped by.
42. A doctor's degree in optometry.
44. People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.
46. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
50. The sacred city of Lamaism.
52. (geology) Before the appearance of life.
53. Being nine more than ninety.
54. Ceremonial elegance and splendor.
55. A large quantity of written matter.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. Indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration.
58. In addition.
60. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
64. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
65. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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