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1. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
5. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
13. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
14. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. To declare or affirm as true.
17. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
18. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
19. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
21. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
23. Not reflecting light.
24. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
26. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
28. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
31. Enthusiastic approval.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
38. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
39. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
40. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
41. Squash bugs.
44. A light touch or stroke.
46. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
47. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
49. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
51. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
54. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
58. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
61. An informal term for a father.
62. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
63. Type genus of the Gavidae.
66. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
67. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
68. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
69. (Babylonian) The sky god.
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1. The sixth month of the civil year.
2. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
3. Colloquial British abbreviation.
4. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
5. Any of various units of capacity.
6. By bad luck.
7. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
8. (physics) A deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.
9. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
10. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
20. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
22. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A native or inhabitant of Scotland.
29. Very dark black.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
33. In bed.
34. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. The cry made by sheep.
48. Virus parasitic in bacteria.
49. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
50. An informal term for a father.
52. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
53. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
55. A Hindu prince or king in India.
56. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
57. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
59. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
60. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
64. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
65. A public promotion of some product or service.
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