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1. (of music or art) New and of general appeal (especially among young people).
4. A city of southeastern Mexico.
10. Tag the base runner to get him out.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the surface of the sun.
15. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
16. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
18. A band worn around the arm for decoration.
20. Muslim name for God.
22. Capable of existing or taking place or proving true.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
25. A city in northern India.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
33. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
34. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. The cry made by sheep.
41. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. The state of existing and being localized in space.
46. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
49. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
51. God of love and erotic desire.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
59. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
60. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
62. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
64. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
65. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
68. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
69. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
70. A meeting of spiritualists.
71. Noisy talk.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. British politician (1788-1850).
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Being ten more than eighty.
7. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
8. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
9. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
10. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
11. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
12. A wound resulting from biting.
17. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
19. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
31. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
32. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
35. In bed.
36. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
38. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
39. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
42. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
45. A kind of person.
47. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
48. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
49. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
50. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
52. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
53. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
54. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
56. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
58. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
61. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
66. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
67. Being nine more than ninety.
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