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1. Preserve of crushed fruit.
4. (music) The speed at which a composition is to be played.
10. A castrated tomcat.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
18. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
20. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
22. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
23. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
26. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
29. A master's degree in business.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
37. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
39. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
41. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
42. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
43. Lower in esteem.
45. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
54. Of the blackest black.
57. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
58. English monk and scholar (672-735).
61. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
63. Extremely pleasing.
64. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
66. A resource.
67. Used of a single unit or thing.
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. Atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward.
2. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
3. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
4. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
7. A state in midwestern United States.
8. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
10. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
11. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
12. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
17. Fallow deer.
19. An island of central Hawaii.
21. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
24. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany.
25. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
27. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. Common Indian weaverbird.
31. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
32. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
40. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. A genus of Platalea.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
52. A French abbot.
53. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
55. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
56. An informal term for a father.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. A young woman making her debut into society.
62. The airforce of Great Britain.
65. 16 ounces.
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