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1. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
4. A river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River.
10. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
14. After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
17. A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago.
19. Absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect).
21. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
22. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
37. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
38. The cry made by sheep.
39. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
40. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
41. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
43. Being one more than fifty.
44. Large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. An uproarious party.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. A daughter of your brother or sister.
57. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. Exultantly proud and joyful.
65. Tag the base runner to get him out.
66. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
67. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
68. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
5. Being three more than fifty.
6. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
7. A branch of the Tai languages.
8. A projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint.
9. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. Heal or recover.
11. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Being nine more than ninety.
27. The noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash adv.
28. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
29. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
31. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
33. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
34. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
35. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
36. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
40. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
42. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
47. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
49. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
55. A bluish shade of green.
56. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
58. A boy or man.
59. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
60. A young woman making her debut into society.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
64. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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