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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. Oblong cream puff.
10. The act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. (criminal law) A pleading describing some wrong or offense.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
17. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
18. The basic unit of money in Albania.
19. By bad luck.
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
24. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
25. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
27. Not only so, but.
34. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
35. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
37. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
39. Being one more than one hundred.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
42. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
46. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
47. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
50. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
53. Using the voice.
55. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
59. (archaic) A fitting reward.
62. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
64. City in Sudan.
66. The month following January and preceding March.
67. Toward the mouth or oral region.
68. United States tennis player (born in Yugoslavia in 1973).
69. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. A genus of Mustelidae.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
4. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
5. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
6. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
7. A large fleet.
8. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
9. Tear or be torn violently.
10. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
20. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Common Indian weaverbird.
28. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. An enclosed space.
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
32. A town in north central Oklahoma.
33. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. An insane person.
43. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
44. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
45. Of or belonging to an aecium.
46. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
48. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. A telegram sent abroad.
52. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
54. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. (British slang) Cafe.
57. In bed.
58. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
60. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
61. The seed of the cereal grass.
62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
65. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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