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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. A Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream.
10. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
13. United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945).
14. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
15. 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.
16. Remote in manner.
18. Again but in a new or different way.
19. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
24. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
25. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
26. Unknown god.
32. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
36. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
37. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
38. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
39. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
50. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction.
63. A rapid bustling commotion.
64. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
66. A small lump or protuberance.
67. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
68. Squash bugs.
69. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
3. Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime.
4. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
7. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
8. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
17. Bringing death.
21. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
23. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
27. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
28. English monk and scholar (672-735).
29. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. A tight-fitting headdress.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
42. The cry made by sheep.
44. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
48. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
49. A genus of Lamnidae.
50. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
51. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
52. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
53. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
55. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
56. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
59. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
61. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
62. A state of southwestern India.
65. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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