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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
5. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
9. A city in northwestern Syria.
13. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
16. Jordan's port.
18. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
20. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. The capital of Western Samoa.
28. A loud harsh or strident noise.
31. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
33. Taken or to be taken at random.
36. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
38. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
45. Short and fat.
46. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
48. Mother goddess.
51. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
54. A Mid-Atlantic state.
58. A Loloish language.
60. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
62. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
63. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
64. Music performed for dancing the polka.
66. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
67. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
68. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
69. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
3. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
9. Call before a court to answer an indictment.
10. Large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common.
11. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
12. Partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. X-ray picture of the kidneys and ureters after injection of a radiopaque dye.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
24. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
30. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
32. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
34. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
39. Overgrown with ivy.
42. In bed.
43. Being one more than ninety.
44. Offensively discourteous.
45. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
47. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
49. Type genus of the Vespidae.
50. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
52. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
53. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
56. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
57. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
59. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
65. Before noon.
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