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1. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
5. Obvious and dull.
10. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
13. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
14. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
15. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
16. Advanced in years.
17. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
19. A woman of refinement.
21. Sometimes placed in Smilacaceae.
23. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
25. (of soil) Soft and watery.
26. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
29. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
33. The closing section of a musical composition.
37. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
48. Leafless East Indian vine.
51. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
53. Not disposed of by purchase.
54. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
57. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
60. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
61. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
63. In a foreign country.
66. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
67. Range of what one can know or understand.
68. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
69. A bachelor's degree in theology.
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1. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
2. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
3. In bed.
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
7. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
8. Absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages).
9. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
10. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
11. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
12. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
20. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
22. (informal) Roused to anger.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. How long something has existed.
28. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
32. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
34. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
35. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
36. (informal) Of the highest quality.
38. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
40. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
41. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
44. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
47. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
49. Administer an oil or ointment to.
50. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
52. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
55. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
56. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone).
58. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
59. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
61. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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