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1. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
4. A Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation.
10. Inquire about.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. (archaic) A fitting reward.
18. A disdainful pouting grimace.
19. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
20. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
22. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
24. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
26. Lower in esteem.
28. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
32. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. Take in solid food.
40. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
42. Any plant of the genus Erica.
45. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
48. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
52. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
56. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
57. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
58. A Scottish word.
62. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
63. One millionth of a gram.
64. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
66. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
67. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
68. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
69. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
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1. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
2. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A radioactive transuranic element.
5. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
6. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
7. Capital of modern Macedonia.
8. Any taillike structure.
9. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
17. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. An informal term for a father.
25. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
31. Vietnamese New Year.
33. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
34. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
35. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
36. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
43. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
44. An associate degree in applied science.
46. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
47. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
49. Someone who rants and raves.
50. Excessively fat.
51. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
53. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
54. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
55. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
59. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
60. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
61. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
65. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
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