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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
10. A shape that sags.
13. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
14. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
19. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
21. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
23. A Russian river.
25. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
26. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
28. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
30. Wild ginger.
32. A permanent council of the United Nations.
36. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
37. Highly excited.
40. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Go beyond.
52. An informal term for a father.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. Make a dent or impression in.
58. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
62. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
64. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
66. South African term for `boss'.
67. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
68. In or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air.
70. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
71. An associate degree in applied science.
72. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
73. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
4. One million periods per second.
5. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
6. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
7. Informal terms for a mother.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
10. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
11. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
12. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
17. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
20. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
22. God of war and sky.
24. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
29. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
31. The second largest city in Tunisia.
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. Using speech rather than writing.
35. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
39. A doctor's degree in optometry.
42. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
43. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
44. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
45. The cry made by sheep.
48. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
49. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. Divulge information or secrets.
53. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. Prepare for a military confrontation.
59. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
60. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
61. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
63. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
65. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
66. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
69. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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