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1. Elegant and stylish.
5. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
10. The act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope.
13. God of the Underworld.
14. A Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
17. Acting like a clown or buffoon.
18. The basic unit of money in Albania.
19. A large fleet.
21. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
23. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. Type genus of the Amiidae.
28. A Hindu prince or king in India.
32. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
36. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
39. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
40. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
41. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
42. Being one more than one.
44. Jordan's port.
46. The act of scanning.
48. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
49. A Hindu prince or king in India.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
57. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
63. A motley assortment of things.
65. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
66. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
67. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
68. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
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1. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
2. annoy continually or chronically.
3. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
4. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
5. The striking of one body against another.
6. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
7. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
8. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
9. The female or generative principle.
10. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
20. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. The capital of Western Samoa.
30. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
31. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
33. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
34. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
35. Having been read.
37. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
38. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
43. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
45. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
47. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
48. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
50. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
52. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
53. A quantity that is added.
54. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
55. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
58. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
59. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
64. Before noon.
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