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1. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
4. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
10. A master's degree in fine arts.
13. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
14. An angel of the first order.
15. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. Transparent anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye.
18. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
19. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
21. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
23. Tropical Asian starlings.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
31. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
34. Not only so, but.
35. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
39. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
43. A white trivalent metallic element.
44. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. A port city in southwestern Iran.
51. Made of bamboo.
54. An associate degree in nursing.
55. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
58. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
59. Distance travelled per unit time.
61. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
62. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
63. Tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome.
65. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
66. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
67. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2).
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
3. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
4. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
5. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
6. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
7. A person who owns or operates a ranch.
8. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
9. African mahogany trees.
10. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
11. Loose or flaccid body fat.
12. Pale gray.
20. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
22. Divulge information or secrets.
24. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
25. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
28. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
29. Having much flesh (especially fat).
32. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
33. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
36. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
40. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
41. Hard fiber used in making coarse twine.
42. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
45. An inhabitant of Lappland.
47. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
48. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
50. English monk and scholar (672-735).
51. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
52. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
53. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
56. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
60. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
64. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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