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1. A French abbot.
5. A city in northern India.
9. The central area of a church.
13. Not easy.
14. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
15. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.
16. In bed.
17. (British slang) Cafe.
18. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
19. A decree that prohibits something.
21. Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.
24. The basic unit of money in Romania.
25. Lacking spirit or liveliness.
29. African mahogany trees.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
36. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
37. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
39. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
40. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
41. Produced by a manufacturing process.
45. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
47. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
49. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
51. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
55. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. The act of scanning.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood.
64. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
65. One thousandth of a second.
66. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
67. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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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 small cake leavened with yeast.
3. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
4. A doctor's degree in education.
5. Enthusiastic approval.
6. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
7. The airforce of Great Britain.
8. Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
9. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
10. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
11. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
12. An opening that permits escape or release.
20. Largest known toad species.
22. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
27. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
28. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
30. Type genus of the Amiidae.
31. Not only so, but.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
35. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
38. Exposing human folly to ridicule.
42. An informal term for a father.
43. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
44. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
46. A mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera.
47. Half the width of an em.
48. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
50. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
52. Framework for holding objects.
53. A slender double-reed instrument.
54. A quantity of no importance.
58. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
59. Black tropical American cuckoo.
62. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
63. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
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