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1. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
4. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
10. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
14. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
19. A doctor's degree in religion.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
24. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
26. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. The superior of an abbey of monks.
32. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
33. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
36. Arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks.
37. Offering fun and gaiety.
38. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
45. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
52. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
55. Type genus of the Hylidae.
58. A branch of the Tai languages.
59. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
61. Not widely known.
63. A master's degree in business.
64. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
65. An introductory textbook.
67. Tag the base runner to get him out.
68. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
69. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
2. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
3. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
4. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
5. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
8. A public promotion of some product or service.
9. A soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
17. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
20. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
23. Providing protective supervision.
25. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
30. (informal) Exceptionally good.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
39. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
44. God of death.
46. An associate degree in applied science.
49. A genus of Lamnidae.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Jordan's port.
53. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
54. Slightly open.
56. Young sheep.
57. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
58. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
60. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
62. A cgs unit of work or energy.
66. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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