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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
9. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
13. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. An elaborate song for solo voice.
16. Lacking excess flesh.
17. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
18. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
22. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
28. In bed.
32. A boy or man.
34. The month following January and preceding March.
36. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. A rapid bustling commotion.
39. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
41. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
42. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
44. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
46. The excrement of sea birds.
47. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
50. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
51. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns.
60. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
64. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
65. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
68. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
69. South American cavy.
70. A decree that prohibits something.
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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
2. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
3. Jordan's port.
4. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
5. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
6. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
7. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
8. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
9. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
24. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
30. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
31. (informal) Someone whose style is out of fashion.
33. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
35. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
37. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
40. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
43. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. Offering little or no hope.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. (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.
53. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
54. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
56. Avatar of Vishnu.
57. Very dark black.
59. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
61. (informal) Of the highest quality.
62. The cry made by sheep.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
66. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
67. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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