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1. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
4. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
9. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
13. (informal) Of the highest quality.
14. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
15. A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans.
16. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. Family based on male descent.
19. Not final or absolute.
20. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
22. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
24. Before noon.
25. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
27. An insane person.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
34. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
40. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
47. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
49. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
50. A kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans.
51. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
55. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
58. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
63. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
65. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A town in north central Oklahoma.
68. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
69. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
70. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
71. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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1. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
2. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
3. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A periodic paperback publication.
6. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
7. A decree that prohibits something.
8. State in northeastern India.
9. A nation in northern North America.
10. An addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy.
11. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
17. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
21. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
23. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
32. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
33. Wearing or provided with clothing.
35. An awkward stupid person.
36. Basically shredded cabbage.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
39. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
41. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
42. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
44. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
48. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
52. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
56. A state of agitated irritation.
57. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
59. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
60. A master's degree in education.
61. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
64. (Babylonian) The sky god.
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