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1. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
5. Someone who asks a question.
10. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem.
15. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
17. Horrible in fierceness or savagery.
18. A flexible container with a single opening.
19. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
21. Call upon in supplication.
22. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
26. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
30. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
32. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
35. A permanent council of the United Nations.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
43. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
44. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
46. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
47. An ax used to slaughter cattle.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
62. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
65. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
66. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
67. Filled with a great quantity.
68. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
2. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
5. The sign language used in the United States.
6. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901).
7. Of or relating to or characteristic of Korea or its people or language.
8. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
9. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
10. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
11. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
12. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
28. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
34. The second largest city in Tunisia.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
38. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.
40. French philosopher and theologian.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
48. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
49. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
50. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
53. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. Chief port of Yemen.
56. Rounded like an egg.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
64. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
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