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1. Inquire about.
4. Consisting of the musk-ox.
10. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
15. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
16. Make less active or intense.
18. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
19. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. An autocracy governed by two rulers.
23. God of wealth and love.
26. An informal term for a father.
27. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
30. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
31. Put out or expel from a place.
35. Browned over by exposure to heat.
38. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
39. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
40. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
43. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
44. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. Having a smooth, gleaming surface.
49. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
51. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
52. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
59. The sixth month of the civil year.
60. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
63. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
64. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
66. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
67. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
68. Jordan's port.
69. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
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1. By bad luck.
2. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
3. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
4. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
5. A state in the eastern United States.
6. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
7. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
8. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
9. A long brightly colored shawl.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. Possessing material wealth.
12. Full of zest or vigor.
17. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
22. A Hindu prince or king in India.
24. (informal) Of the highest quality.
25. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
28. The closing section of a musical composition.
29. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
32. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
33. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
34. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
36. The fourth month of the civil year.
37. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
41. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
42. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
45. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
48. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
50. 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A small cake leavened with yeast.
56. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
57. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
58. A small island.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
65. Unknown god.
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