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1. A young woman making her debut into society.
4. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
10. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. Twist or braid together, interlace.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
19. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
20. A deep bow.
22. Structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly.
24. Used especially of fruits.
27. Extremely pleasing.
28. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
31. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
32. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
35. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
38. A Loloish language.
40. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
42. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
44. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
45. Used of a single unit or thing.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. Affect with wonder.
51. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
52. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
55. A Hindu prince or king in India.
59. On or toward the lee.
60. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
62. Avatar of Vishnu.
64. A genus of Mustelidae.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
68. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
69. Jordan's port.
70. A bachelor's degree in theology.
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1. 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).
2. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
8. By bad luck.
9. Unhappy in love.
10. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
11. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
12. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
17. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
21. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
23. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
25. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
26. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
29. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
30. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
33. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
34. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.
36. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
37. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
39. Type genus of the Anatidae.
41. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
42. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
43. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
48. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
49. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
50. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
51. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
53. English essayist (1775-1834).
54. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
57. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
58. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
61. The basic unit of money in Albania.
63. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
66. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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