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1. A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore.
4. A bottle with a stopper.
10. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
13. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
14. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
15. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. Obvious and dull.
21. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
23. An informal term for a father.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
26. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
29. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
33. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
34. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
37. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
38. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
39. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
41. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
43. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
45. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
49. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
52. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
54. 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble.
57. British informal term.
58. Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
63. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
64. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
66. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
67. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
68. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. A city of central China.
4. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. Father of the storm gods Marut.
7. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
8. The face or front of a building.
9. Any plant of the genus Erica.
10. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
11. The eighth month of the civil year.
12. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
22. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
24. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
27. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
30. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
32. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
40. How long something has existed.
42. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
44. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
46. 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.
47. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
48. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Jordan's port.
53. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
55. A Russian river.
56. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
59. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
60. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
61. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
65. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
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