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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
10. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
13. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
14. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
17. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
23. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
25. Type genus of the Apidae.
27. Walk or tramp about.
30. Gull family.
34. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
36. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
37. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
38. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
40. Top part of an apron.
41. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
44. A light medieval helmet with a slit for vision.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
50. A French abbot.
53. God of the earth.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
58. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
66. Used in combination to denote the middle.
67. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
68. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
69. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
70. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
5. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
6. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
7. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
8. (Irish) The sea personified.
9. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
10. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
11. River in eastern Asia.
12. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
18. A bowl-shaped vessel.
20. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
22. A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information.
24. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
26. An informal term for a father.
28. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
29. Being three more than fifty.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
33. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
42. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
43. A state in New England.
45. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
47. Jordan's port.
48. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. (informal) Exceptionally good.
55. Avatar of Vishnu.
56. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
57. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
59. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
60. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
61. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
64. A Russian river.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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