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1. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
5. Lower in esteem.
10. A unit of pressure.
13. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
14. The qualities of a hero or heroine.
15. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
16. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
18. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. Membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi.
22. A telegram sent abroad.
24. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Gone by.
30. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
32. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
36. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
37. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
40. A resource.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. Again but in a new or different way.
43. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
54. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
58. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
61. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
62. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
67. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
68. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
69. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
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1. Any wrongdoing for which and action for damages may be brought.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. Type genus of the Majidae.
4. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
5. The eleventh month of the civil year.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
9. Any plant of the genus Erica.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
12. (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree.
17. God of wealth and love.
21. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975).
28. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
29. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
31. A city in the European part of Russia.
33. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
34. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
35. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
38. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
39. A person of unquestioning obedience.
45. Woman whose dancing beguiled Herod into giving her the head of John the Baptist.
46. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
48. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
50. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
53. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
55. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
56. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
57. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
59. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
60. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
64. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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