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1. An edible tuber native to South America.
5. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
10. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
13. Not final or absolute.
14. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
15. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
16. A drama set to music.
18. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
22. Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason.
24. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
26. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
27. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
30. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
36. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
40. Wear away.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. Make or become free of frost or ice.
45. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
48. A state in northwestern North America.
50. Obvious and dull.
58. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
62. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
63. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
64. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
65. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
66. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
67. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
68. Stalk of a moss capsule.
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1. Cuddling and kissing.
2. Type genus of the Pipidae.
3. Employed in accomplishing something.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
6. Strike suddenly and with force.
7. An administrative division of some larger or more complex organization.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
10. Wild llama.
11. (nautical) Of an anchor.
12. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
17. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
21. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
23. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
25. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
28. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
29. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
31. An informal term for a father.
34. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
35. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. Method or manner of conduct in relation to others.
42. Being nine more than ninety.
49. African antelopes.
51. A city in northern India.
52. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
53. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
54. Type genus of the Anatidae.
55. Female equine animal.
56. Anything that serves as an enticement.
57. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
60. The cry made by sheep.
61. Be seated.
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