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1. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
4. Small genus of succulent annual herbs found on sandy shores of North America and Europe.
10. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
18. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
24. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
26. Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus.
31. A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive.
35. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
36. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
37. Do away with.
39. Squash bugs.
42. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
43. Especially one side of a leaf.
44. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
45. Either extremity of something that has length.
46. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
51. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
54. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
58. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
59. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
62. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
63. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
64. Type genus of the Ranidae.
65. On or toward the lee.
66. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
67. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
2. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
3. A boy or man.
4. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
5. An associate degree in nursing.
6. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
7. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
8. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
9. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
10. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. God of death.
17. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse.
25. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
27. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
28. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. World's longest river (4187 miles).
33. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
34. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A town in east central Missouri.
41. A festival featuring African-American culture.
42. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
50. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
51. A state in northwestern North America.
52. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
53. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
55. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
60. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
61. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
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