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1. Inquire about.
4. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
9. Characteristic of false pride.
13. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
14. A puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words.
15. A small island.
16. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
20. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
21. Stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult v 1.
23. The presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling.
24. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
26. An uproarious party.
28. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
29. A Hindu prince or king in India.
33. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
34. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
35. Basic principles of the cosmos.
37. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
41. A fraudulent business scheme.
42. Flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States.
44. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
46. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
52. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
56. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
58. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
60. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
61. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. In a foreign country.
65. A kind of person.
66. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
67. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
68. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
2. Unusually short.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. A treeless grassy plain.
5. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
8. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
9. A choice or delicious dish.
10. The sign language used in the United States.
11. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
12. A structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young.
17. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
19. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
22. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
25. A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river).
27. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
31. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. Avatar of Vishnu.
36. The capital of Eritrea.
38. Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929).
39. (British slang) Cafe.
40. Flavored with sour orange peel.
41. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
43. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
49. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans.
52. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
53. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
54. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
55. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
57. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. A humorous anecdote or remark.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
64. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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