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1. A human limb.
4. Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime.
9. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
13. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
14. A morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top.
15. American novelist (1909-1955).
16. The content of cognition.
18. In bed.
19. Toward the mouth or oral region.
20. A motley assortment of things.
22. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
24. By bad luck.
26. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
30. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
34. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
38. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
40. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
41. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
42. A state in midwestern United States.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
57. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
58. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
61. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
63. Being three more than fifty.
64. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. Flat tableland with steep edges.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
68. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
69. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
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1. The habitation of wild animals.
2. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
3. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
4. Being five more than one hundred.
5. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
6. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
9. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. A city in northern India.
11. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
17. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
23. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
25. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
28. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
29. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
31. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
32. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
35. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
36. Divulge information or secrets.
37. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
39. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
40. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
44. The cry made by sheep.
46. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
51. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
56. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
59. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
60. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
62. An informal term for a father.
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