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1. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
4. A large fleet.
10. God of the earth.
13. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
14. A dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap.
15. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
16. A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line.
18. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
20. A genus of European owls.
21. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
23. A human female who does housework.
24. Belonging to some prior time.
27. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
29. Pain in the gums.
33. A state in northwestern North America.
34. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
36. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
37. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Marked by or emitting or filled with smoke.
43. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
46. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
49. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
52. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
55. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
58. A Loloish language.
61. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
62. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
63. Jordan's port.
65. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
66. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
67. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
2. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
3. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
6. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
11. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
12. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
17. (anatomy) A structure that resembles a shell in shape.
19. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
22. Eye disease consisting of an opaque white spot on the cornea.
25. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
30. The basic unit of money in Albania.
31. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
32. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
35. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
39. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
41. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
42. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
47. An account describing incidents or events.
48. Arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments.
50. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
56. A source of danger.
57. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
59. The month following February and preceding April.
60. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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