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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
9. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Related to or having filaments especially across a field of view.
15. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
16. Having leadership guidance.
17. The capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island.
18. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
37. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. The face or front of a building.
45. United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931).
47. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
55. In bed.
59. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
60. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
61. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
62. How long something has existed.
65. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
66. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. On or toward the lee.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
7. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. The central area of a church.
12. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
20. Serving as or forming a base.
22. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
24. A radioactive transuranic element.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. One thousandth of a second.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. The sixth month of the civil year.
31. Offering fun and gaiety.
32. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
34. An informal term for a father.
39. Having a rough edge.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
46. The Creator.
48. Jordan's port.
49. A state in midwestern United States.
51. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
52. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
54. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
56. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
58. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
63. Unknown god.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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