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1. A group of countries in special alliance.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. Offering fun and gaiety.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
16. A pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished.
17. An informal term for a father.
18. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
19. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
21. Informal terms for a mother.
23. A decree that prohibits something.
24. Disparaging terms for the common people.
25. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. The German state.
29. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
32. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
39. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
42. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
44. The act of detecting something.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. The bill in a restaurant.
49. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
53. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
62. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
63. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
65. The cry made by sheep.
66. Tag the base runner to get him out.
70. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
71. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
72. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
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1. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
2. (Welsh) A warrior god.
3. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
6. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
7. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
8. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
9. 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.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
12. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. Largest known toad species.
28. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
30. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
31. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
34. Indigo bush.
36. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
37. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
38. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
40. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
41. Of a pale purple color.
45. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
54. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
55. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
56. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
57. A sudden short attack.
59. A French abbot.
60. With no effort to conceal.
61. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
64. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
67. Before noon.
68. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
69. The eleventh month of the civil year.
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