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1. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
10. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. A knife resembling a cleaver.
15. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
16. Great coolness and composure under strain.
18. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
20. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
21. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
23. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
28. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
31. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
35. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
37. A port city in southwestern Iran.
38. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
39. Type genus of the Amiidae.
41. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
45. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
47. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. A public promotion of some product or service.
54. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
57. Having a woven pattern.
61. Supporting yourself on your knees.
64. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
65. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
66. Type genus of the Annonaceae.
68. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
69. The longest division of geological time.
70. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A small vessel for travel on water.
2. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
3. Offering fun and gaiety.
4. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
5. 1 species.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
8. Not out.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
12. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
17. Talk pompously.
19. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
22. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
25. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
30. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
32. Not divisible by two.
33. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
34. Type genus of the Anatidae.
36. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
40. Characteristic of a mob.
43. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
46. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
49. The highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
53. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. Lacking excess flesh.
56. Divulge information or secrets.
57. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
58. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
60. God of love and erotic desire.
62. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
63. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
67. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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