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1. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
4. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
10. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. African mahogany trees.
18. Used of eyes lacking liveliness.
20. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
22. Complacently or inanely foolish.
23. Divulge information or secrets.
26. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
29. A state of agitated irritation.
33. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
37. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
38. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
39. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
40. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
42. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
44. A town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River.
46. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
50. The cry made by sheep.
51. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
54. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
58. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
61. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
62. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
63. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
66. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
68. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
69. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
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1. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
2. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
5. An associate degree in nursing.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
9. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
10. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
11. Chief port of Yemen.
12. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
17. A cruel and brutal fellow.
19. Type genus of the Anatidae.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. A local computer network for communication between computers.
25. God of the earth.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
30. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
31. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
32. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
36. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
41. A person who keeps watch over something or someone.
43. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. A formal expression of praise.
48. Jordan's port.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
53. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
55. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
56. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
57. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
59. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
60. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
64. A Russian river.
65. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
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