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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. The capital of Morocco.
9. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
13. The sign language used in the United States.
14. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
15. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. Clean or orderly.
18. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
21. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
23. Relating to the Lamaze method of childbirth.
25. Lacking kindness.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. An informal term for a father.
29. A country person.
34. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
38. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
39. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
41. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
42. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
43. The residue that remains when something is burned.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. A flexible container with a single opening.
50. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
53. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
57. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
58. Jordan's port.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. A covering to disguise or conceal the face.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
66. A Loloish language.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A province in north-central China.
2. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
3. Of a surface.
4. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. A vigorous blow.
7. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
8. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
9. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
10. Largest known toad species.
11. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
12. Soft creamy white cheese.
17. The capital of Nationalist China.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. Squash bugs.
24. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
26. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
30. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
31. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
32. The central area of a church.
33. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
35. An associate degree in applied science.
36. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
41. A vigorous blow.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. Jordan's port.
51. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
52. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
54. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
59. A relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A decree that prohibits something.
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