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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. A seat with a cushion that is used as a throne by Indian princes.
10. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
13. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
14. A flammable colorless gaseous alkene.
15. A doctor's degree in education.
16. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
17. French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397).
18. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
19. A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane.
21. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
27. Rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel.
30. American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815).
34. God of the underworld.
35. The square of a body of any size of type.
36. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
40. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
44. Deciduous shrub of North America.
46. Having a squat and fleshy build.
49. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
53. Something very ugly and offensive.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. Jordan's port.
61. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
62. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
63. A medium for oil-paints.
65. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
66. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
69. Being one more than one hundred.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. A genus of European owls.
3. Become gelatinous.
4. Largest city of Tennessee.
5. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
6. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches.
7. Remaining after all deductions.
8. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
9. The habitation of wild animals.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
11. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
12. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
20. River in eastern Asia.
22. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
24. A state in northwestern North America.
26. British writer of novels who was born in India.
28. An instinctive motive.
29. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. A unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere.
32. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
33. Type genus of the Nepidae.
38. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
42. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
43. Minor or subordinate.
45. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. City in Sudan.
50. In bed.
51. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
52. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
54. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
55. Located in or toward the back or rear.
56. Expel, as of gases and odors.
59. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
60. Gone by.
64. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
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