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1. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
4. The herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen.
10. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
13. Seed of a pea plant.
14. Someone who listens attentively.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
20. At full speed.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. The act of scanning.
27. Unknown god.
29. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
30. A permanent council of the United Nations.
34. A doctor's degree in education.
36. The sound made by corvine birds.
39. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
40. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
43. Type genus of the Majidae.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
48. Existing for a long time.
50. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. A port city in southwestern Iran.
58. 10 grams.
63. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
65. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
66. The eighth month of the civil year.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
69. Pale gray.
70. A public promotion of some product or service.
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1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
2. A large quantity of written matter.
3. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
4. Of or in or relating to the nose.
5. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
6. Informal terms for a mother.
7. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
8. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
9. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
10. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
22. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. Using speech rather than writing.
33. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
35. The face of a timepiece.
37. Before noon.
38. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
45. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
51. Squash bugs.
52. Informal terms for a mother.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. The time during which someone's life continues.
56. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
57. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
59. 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.
60. A castrated tomcat.
61. A light touch or stroke.
62. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
63. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
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