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1. A deep prolonged loud noise.
5. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
10. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
13. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
14. Lower in esteem.
15. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
16. A group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast.
17. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. Small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
26. The act of ceding.
30. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
35. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
40. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
42. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
45. Naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
50. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
51. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
53. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
57. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
61. The cry made by sheep.
62. Seed of a pea plant.
63. A performer who dances.
65. A container.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
68. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An endorsement.
3. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
4. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
5. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
8. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
9. South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit.
10. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
11. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
12. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
18. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
21. A Russian river.
23. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
24. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
27. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
29. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
31. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
32. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
33. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. A person who evokes boredom.
43. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
44. An Asian temple.
45. A rapid bustling commotion.
46. A city in central Tanzania.
48. Indigo bush.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
54. A French abbot.
55. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
56. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
58. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
59. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
60. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
64. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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