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1. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
4. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
10. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
13. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
14. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
15. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
16. Someone who admires a young woman.
18. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
20. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
21. In bed.
24. Not widely known.
25. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
28. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
30. A Hindu prince or king in India.
32. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
33. 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.
35. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. Take in solid food.
43. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
44. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
47. Excessively fat.
49. Praise, glorify, or honor.
52. A branch of the Tai languages.
54. Enthusiastic approval.
58. Befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman.
61. Jordan's port.
62. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
63. A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord.
66. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
67. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
68. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
69. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
2. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
3. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
7. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
10. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
11. A grant made by a law court.
12. United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (born in 1935).
17. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
19. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
22. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
23. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
26. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
27. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
29. A French abbot.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
36. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
37. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
38. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
40. 1 species.
42. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
45. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
46. Common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States.
48. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. The act of grasping.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
57. Produced by a manufacturing process.
59. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.
60. Up to the present time.
64. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
65. The square of a body of any size of type.
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