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1. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
4. A port city in southwestern Iran.
10. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
14. Source of a tough elastic wood.
15. The month following February and preceding April.
16. An associate degree in applied science.
17. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
19. A city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau.
22. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
27. Remote and separate physically or socially.
30. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
34. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
36. Of or relating to or measured in ohms.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
39. Half the width of an em.
40. How long something has existed.
41. Avatar of Vishnu.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
46. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
48. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
50. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
53. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
57. A long difficult walk v 1.
60. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
61. The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.
62. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
65. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
66. A unit of pressure.
67. A battle in 1645 that settled the outcome of the first English Civil War as the Parliamentarians won a major victory over the Royalists.
68. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
69. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
8. The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
9. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. Fallow deer.
12. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
18. The sound of laughing.
20. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
21. Spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.
26. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
28. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
29. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
31. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. In bed.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
47. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
48. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
49. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
51. Weapons considered collectively.
52. A Dravidian language spoken in southeast India.
54. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
55. Suggestive of the supernatural.
56. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
58. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
59. Water frozen in the solid state.
63. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
64. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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