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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Wear away.
10. An associate degree in applied science.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
18. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
25. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. One who works hard at boring tasks.
42. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
43. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
44. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
47. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
49. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
52. Lower in esteem.
56. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
57. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
61. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
62. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
64. Colony of the United Kingdom located on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain.
65. Goddess of fate.
66. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
67. A step in walking or running.
68. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A city in western Germany on the Rhine River.
2. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
3. Young sheep.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
6. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
7. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
8. A light touch or stroke.
9. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
10. By bad luck.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. The act of scanning.
17. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
22. A castrated tomcat.
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
28. Heal or recover.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
32. God of the Underworld.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
34. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
36. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
37. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
40. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
41. A strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled.
42. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
45. Extremely pleasing.
46. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
48. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
50. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
51. A state in New England.
53. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
54. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
55. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
58. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
59. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
60. An accountant certified by the state.
63. 16 ounces.
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