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1. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
4. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
9. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
13. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
14. Type genus of the Elopidae.
15. Advanced in years.
16. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
18. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
19. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
20. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
21. Not challenging.
23. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
26. The cry made by sheep.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
30. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
33. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
35. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. In a bald manner.
40. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
46. A master's degree in business.
49. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
51. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
52. An honorary arts degree.
55. English essayist (1775-1834).
60. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
61. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
62. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
64. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
65. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
66. The female or generative principle.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A French abbot.
2. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
5. European shad.
6. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
7. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
8. Capital of modern Macedonia.
9. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
10. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
11. A city in southeastern South Korea.
12. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
17. Not subjected to an aging process.
22. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
24. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
31. The sixth month of the civil year.
32. An informal term for a father.
34. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
36. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
42. Hard fiber used in making coarse twine.
43. A city in southeastern South Korea.
45. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
47. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
48. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
50. On or toward the lee.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
57. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
58. Inquire about.
59. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
63. An expression of greeting.
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