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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. A state in northwestern North America.
10. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. Someone who plays the harp.
15. The fatty flesh of eel.
16. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
17. Go on board.
18. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
19. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
21. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
23. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
26. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
29. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
30. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
33. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
37. A port city in southwestern Iran.
40. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
41. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
42. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
45. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
48. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
49. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
51. By bad luck.
53. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
57. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
59. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
62. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
63. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
67. At or constituting a border or edge.
68. Jordan's port.
69. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Singing jazz.
3. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
4. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
5. A genus of Lamnidae.
6. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
7. Type genus of the Spalacidae.
8. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
9. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
10. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
11. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
12. Free from dirt or impurities.
20. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
22. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
24. Tag the base runner to get him out.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
28. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
31. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
32. An associate degree in nursing.
34. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
35. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
36. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
38. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
39. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
43. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
44. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
46. A telegram sent abroad.
47. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
50. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
52. A branch of the Tai languages.
53. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
56. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
58. The month following July and preceding September.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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