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1. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
4. An ancient Greek city famous for military prowess.
10. An unforeseen obstacle.
13. A police officer who investigates crimes.
14. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
18. Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
19. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
20. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
22. With rapid movements.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
27. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
30. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
32. An associate degree in nursing.
35. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876).
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
45. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
46. Half the width of an em.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
51. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
54. A loose cloak with a hood.
58. Being nine more than ninety.
59. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
60. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
61. Anything that contributes causally to a result.
65. Being one more than six.
66. The face or front of a building.
67. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
68. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
69. Having winglike extensions.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
2. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
3. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
6. A Loloish language.
7. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. The sound made by a gentle blow.
9. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
10. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
11. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
12. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
17. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
25. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
28. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
29. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
31. The cry made by sheep.
33. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
34. How long something has existed.
37. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
38. A city in east central Texas.
40. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
41. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
42. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
43. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
49. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
50. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
55. A town in north central Oklahoma.
56. Set down according to a plan.
57. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
62. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
63. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
64. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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