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1. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. Bright and pleasant.
13. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
14. (Sumerian) Legendary friend of Gilgamish.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
21. A fluid product of inflammation.
24. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
26. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
27. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
28. An unforeseen obstacle.
29. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
33. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. In bed.
38. A representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.
40. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
42. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
43. A man who serves as a sailor.
44. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
47. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
49. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
53. A long-playing phonograph record.
56. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
57. The twelfth month of the civil year.
60. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
62. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Being one more than two.
66. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
67. Jordan's port.
68. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. Not functioning properly.
2. Tropical Asian starlings.
3. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
4. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians.
5. An associate degree in nursing.
6. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
7. Top part of an apron.
8. A public promotion of some product or service.
9. An administrative unit of government.
10. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
11. Lower in esteem.
12. A language group of the Hokan family.
17. A fundamental principle or practice.
20. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
22. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
23. Informal terms for clothing.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
31. A young woman making her debut into society.
32. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
37. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
39. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
45. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
46. Walk or tramp about.
48. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
50. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
51. God of the Underworld.
52. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
54. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
55. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
58. The basic unit of money in Albania.
59. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
60. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
61. Being two more than fifty.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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