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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
10. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
13. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
14. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
21. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
22. Lower in esteem.
24. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. In bed.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
43. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
47. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
48. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. Being one more than fifty.
53. In an unnatural eery manner.
57. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
59. As the agent of or on someone's part.
63. The cry made by sheep.
64. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
65. Type genus of the Otariidae.
66. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
67. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
70. A doctor's degree in religion.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. Characteristic of a mob.
5. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
6. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
7. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
10. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
11. By bad luck.
12. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
20. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
26. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
31. 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.
32. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
33. Very dark black.
35. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
36. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
45. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
46. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
49. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
55. A narrow way or road.
56. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
58. The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros.
60. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
61. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
62. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
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