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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
5. A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment.
10. A master's degree in business.
13. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
14. United States baseball player.
15. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
16. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
17. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
18. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
19. A large bottle for holding corrosive liquids.
21. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
23. A city in northeastern Ohio.
26. An associate degree in nursing.
27. A ribbon used as a decoration.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
33. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
34. Censure severely or angrily.
37. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
40. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
41. A state in northwestern North America.
42. A doctor's degree in education.
45. A state in north central United States.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. A superior grade of black tea.
52. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
54. The act of escaping physically.
58. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
61. An informal term for a father.
62. (informal) Of the highest quality.
63. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
67. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
68. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
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1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
2. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
3. Located in or toward the back or rear.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. Type genus of the Sphyrnidae.
6. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
7. The seventh month of the civil year.
8. Armor plate that protects the chest.
9. Having been taken in marriage.
10. The girl friend of a gangster.
11. God of wealth and love.
12. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
20. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
22. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
24. Not divisible by two.
25. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
28. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
36. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
38. Jordan's port.
39. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
43. A person forced to flee from home or country.
44. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
46. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
53. In bed.
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
57. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
59. A unit of pain intensity.
60. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
64. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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