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1. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
5. Make improvements or corrections to.
10. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
13. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
14. A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. Sell or offer for sale from place to place.
17. (combining form) Very large in scale or scope or capability.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. A songlike cry in which the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal voice and falsetto.
21. The abode of humans in Norse mythology.
23. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
26. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
30. A large fleet.
33. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. Jordan's port.
43. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. The square of a body of any size of type.
46. Jordan's port.
48. A light touch or stroke.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
56. The sixth month of the civil year.
58. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
62. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
63. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
64. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
65. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
67. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
68. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829).
2. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
3. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
4. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
5. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
6. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
7. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
8. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
9. Tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips.
10. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
11. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
22. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
24. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. God of love and erotic desire.
41. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
42. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
47. English monk and scholar (672-735).
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. Of or relating to near the ear.
55. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
57. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
59. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
60. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
66. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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