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1. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
4. A man who serves as a sailor.
10. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
15. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
16. Lean end of the neck.
18. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
19. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
20. An informal conversation.
22. A salt deposit that animals regularly lick.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
27. Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning.
29. Tropical American trees.
32. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
38. Leafless East Indian vine.
39. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
41. A thrusting blow with a knife.
44. The complete duration of something.
45. A town in north central Oklahoma.
46. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
48. Either extremity of something that has length.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. Become less tense.
52. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
56. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
60. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
63. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
64. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
65. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
66. The month following February and preceding April.
67. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
2. A city in east central Texas.
3. A mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers).
4. With sweetening added.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
7. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
8. Used especially in treating bruises.
9. A B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract.
10. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
17. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
21. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
23. (Russian) Fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
30. Very dark black.
31. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
33. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
34. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
37. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. The provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada).
43. Type genus of the Balaenidae.
47. 1 species.
51. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
53. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
54. An elaborate song for solo voice.
55. Flat tableland with steep edges.
57. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
58. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
59. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. Extremely pleasing.
62. Tag the base runner to get him out.
63. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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