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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
5. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
9. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
13. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
14. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
15. Not easy.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
20. Capable of wounding.
22. Touched lightly in passing.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
26. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
33. Especially one side of a leaf.
34. A human limb.
36. A state of northeastern India.
38. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
39. A French abbot.
41. The general activity of selling.
42. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
45. Capable of being acted.
47. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
50. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
51. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
54. Enthusiastic approval.
58. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
59. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. The cry made by sheep.
64. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
66. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
67. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
68. A port city in southwestern Iran.
69. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
70. A state in New England.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
3. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
4. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
9. (physical chemistry) A distinct state of matter in a system.
10. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
11. Soft creamy white cheese.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
17. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
19. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
21. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
24. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
27. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
28. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
29. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
30. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
31. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
32. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
35. A master's degree in business.
37. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
40. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
43. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
44. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
45. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
46. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
48. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
49. A genus of Ploceidae.
52. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
53. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
55. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
56. In bed.
57. Flat and uninspiring.
60. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
61. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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