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1. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
4. An oil port in southern Iraq.
9. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
15. A primeval personification of air and breath.
16. A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.
18. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
19. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
20. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
22. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
24. Before noon.
25. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. A humorous anecdote or remark.
30. French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of romanticism (1866-1925).
34. The act of scanning.
36. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
38. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
50. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
53. To fix or set securely or deeply.
57. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
61. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
62. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
63. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
65. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
66. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
67. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
68. A doctor's degree in education.
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1. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
2. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
3. Type genus of the Ranidae.
4. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
5. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
6. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
7. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
12. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
17. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
21. A light touch or stroke.
23. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
26. A Loloish language.
28. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
32. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
33. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
42. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
43. The cry made by sheep.
45. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
47. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
48. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
51. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
55. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
56. Two items of the same kind.
58. Inquire about.
59. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
60. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
64. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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