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1. Very dark black.
5. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
10. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
13. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
14. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Having relatively few calories.
17. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
18. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
19. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
21. Ostentatiously lofty in style.
23. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
30. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
33. Not out.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
46. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
48. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
51. A decree that prohibits something.
52. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
55. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
57. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
60. Of surpassing excellence.
62. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
63. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
64. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
65. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
69. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
70. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (prefix) Within.
2. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Rock, sway, or nod.
5. British informal term.
6. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
7. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
8. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
9. Load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully".
10. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
11. Complacently or inanely foolish.
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
20. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
22. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
29. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
36. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
37. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
39. Lower in esteem.
40. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
42. A light touch or stroke.
43. Hard fiber used in making coarse twine.
44. Complacently or inanely foolish.
47. An inhabitant of Lappland.
49. Found along western Atlantic coast.
50. Jordan's port.
51. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
53. The muscular back part of the shank.
54. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
55. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
56. The face of a timepiece.
58. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
61. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
66. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
67. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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