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1. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
5. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
10. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
13. Long and thin and often limp.
14. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
15. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
16. Type genus of the Amiidae.
17. A master's degree in education.
18. Greek mythology.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
26. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
28. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
31. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
32. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
35. A genus of Platalea.
40. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
41. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
42. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
43. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
44. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
51. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
53. Covered with paving material.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
58. Step on it.
59. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
63. An informal term for a father.
65. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
66. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
67. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
68. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
69. Of or relating to or characteristic of Texas or its residents.
70. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
2. God of love and erotic desire.
3. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
4. Jordan's port.
5. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
6. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
7. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
10. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
11. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
12. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. An expression of greeting.
27. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
29. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
30. A tight-fitting headdress.
33. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
34. An elaborate song for solo voice.
36. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
39. One of the Muslim people of Africa.
45. Tag the base runner to get him out.
48. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
49. A step in walking or running.
50. The capital of Morocco.
52. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
54. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. An informal term for a father.
60. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
61. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
63. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
64. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
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