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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
10. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
13. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
14. Ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
18. A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement.
19. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
20. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
21. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. Any plant of the genus Erica.
32. Make amends for.
36. The cry made by sheep.
38. A witty saying.
40. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
43. Black tropical American cuckoo.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. A Loloish language.
54. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
57. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
61. An honorary degree in science.
62. A fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. (informal) Of the highest quality.
68. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
69. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
70. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
71. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
72. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. A branch of the Tai languages.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. A genus of Platalea.
4. Taking place over public roads.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
7. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. The concentration of a solution as determined by titration.
9. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
10. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
11. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
12. Flat and uninspiring.
17. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
22. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
24. Being one more than one hundred.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
30. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
31. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
33. (informal) Exceptionally good.
34. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
35. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
37. Used of a single unit or thing.
39. The content of cognition.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
50. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
55. Chief port of Yemen.
56. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
58. Set down according to a plan.
59. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
60. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
63. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
64. Gone by.
65. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
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