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1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
5. African mahogany trees.
10. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
13. Avatar of Vishnu.
14. Cause to become awake or conscious.
15. A light touch or stroke.
16. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
17. Squash bugs.
18. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
19. Russian writer who introduced realism to Russian literature (1809-1852).
21. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
22. A shade of brown with a tinge of red.
23. A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
39. How long something has existed.
41. A bachelor's degree in religion.
42. A city in east central Texas.
44. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
45. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
50. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. A quantity of no importance.
57. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
58. A shelter from danger or hardship.
60. The distance around a person's body.
61. A capacious bag or basket.
62. With rapid movements.
65. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
66. A town in north central Oklahoma.
67. A telegram sent abroad.
68. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
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1. Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876).
2. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
3. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
4. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
5. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
6. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
7. Jordan's port.
8. An affirmative.
9. A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings.
10. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
11. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
12. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
20. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
27. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
29. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A state in midwestern United States.
37. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
38. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. Formed or gathered into a ball.
46. American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792).
47. An island in the West Indies.
48. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life.
52. (prefix) Within.
53. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
56. American novelist (1909-1955).
59. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
60. A flexible container with a single opening.
63. An informal term for a father.
64. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
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