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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. Take to be the case or to be true.
10. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. A genus of small kites of both Old and New Worlds.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
17. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
18. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
19. By bad luck.
21. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
23. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. Of or relating to herbs.
27. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
29. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
36. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
38. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
40. The site of an archeological exploration.
42. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
44. Lower in esteem.
47. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
55. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
58. Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes.
60. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
63. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
64. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
66. Rounded like an egg.
67. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
68. English monk and scholar (672-735).
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A genus of Mustelidae.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
4. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
5. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
6. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
7. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
8. Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929).
9. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
10. Obvious and dull.
11. The content of cognition.
12. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
24. (informal) Of the highest quality.
26. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945).
43. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
44. The content of cognition.
45. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
51. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
56. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
60. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
61. Fiddler crabs.
62. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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