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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
10. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
13. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
14. The capital of Eritrea.
15. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
16. Someone whose business is advertising.
18. Rounded like an egg.
19. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
26. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
29. Set down according to a plan.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
39. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
41. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
43. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
46. An arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions.
51. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
52. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
54. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
56. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
60. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
64. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
65. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
66. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
68. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. Being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn.
71. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A quantity of no importance.
3. A pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3).
4. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
5. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
6. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
7. A warning against certain acts.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
10. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
11. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
12. Divulge information or secrets.
17. In bed.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. Capital of Vanuatu.
27. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
28. A motley assortment of things.
30. A city in northern India.
33. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
34. One thousandth of a second.
35. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. The bill in a restaurant.
48. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
49. God of wealth and love.
50. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. An unforeseen obstacle.
56. Take in solid food.
57. An unofficial association of people or groups.
58. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
59. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
63. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
67. A public promotion of some product or service.
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