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1. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
13. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
14. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).
15. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
16. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
17. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
18. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. The middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen.
25. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
26. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
28. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
35. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
40. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Employed in accomplishing something.
44. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
46. A native of ancient Troy.
48. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
55. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
57. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
58. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
62. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
63. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
64. A recording made on magnetic tape.
66. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
67. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
68. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
2. Muslim name for God.
3. Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water.
4. Become imbued.
5. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
8. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
9. The father of your father or mother.
10. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
11. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
12. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
20. The cry made by sheep.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
27. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
29. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
33. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
34. In bed.
36. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
41. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
42. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
45. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
47. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
49. English monk and scholar (672-735).
50. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
51. American author of inspirational adventure stories for boys.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. A member of the Pueblo people living in western New Mexico.
59. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
60. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
61. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
62. An informal term for a father.
65. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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