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1. A diagram or picture illustrating textual material.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
15. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
16. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn.
18. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
20. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
21. Archaic name for England or Great Britain.
22. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
24. Transient cessation of respiration.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
29. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
31. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
34. (informal) Of the highest quality.
35. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
37. A state in midwestern United States.
38. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
41. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
51. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
53. A mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing.
57. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
61. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
62. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
63. Get or find back.
65. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
66. Seed of a pea plant.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
69. Half the width of an em.
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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
3. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
4. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
5. Gone by.
6. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
7. Before noon.
8. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
9. An associate degree in nursing.
10. Transparent anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye.
11. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
12. English essayist (1775-1834).
17. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
19. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. Jordan's port.
28. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
30. Being nine more than ninety.
32. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
33. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
36. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
39. In bed.
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
42. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
43. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. A genus of Platalea.
52. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
54. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
55. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
56. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
58. 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).
59. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
60. Gone by.
64. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
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