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1. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
5. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
10. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
13. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
14. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
15. Fiddler crabs.
16. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
17. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
19. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
20. An uproarious party.
21. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
27. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
28. A small amount of liquid food.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
35. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. Jordan's port.
43. The father of your father or mother.
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
49. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
60. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
62. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
63. A permanent council of the United Nations.
65. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
66. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
67. Any age prior to the legal age.
68. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. An awkward stupid person.
4. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
5. Marked by the reception of pay.
6. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
9. A doctor's degree in education.
10. Wood of a sumac.
11. Sour or bitter in taste.
12. Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason.
18. A Russian river.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. God of war.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
30. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
32. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
34. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
36. Fallow deer.
37. A master's degree in business.
38. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
40. Very spicy sauce made from tabasco peppers.
41. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
42. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
44. Smother or suppress.
45. A resource.
48. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
50. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
51. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
52. Type genus of the Musaceae.
54. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
55. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
58. The longest division of geological time.
59. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
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