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1. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
4. Of or relating to Samoa or its people or language or culture.
10. Inquire about.
13. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
14. (of a shore or shoreline) Characterized by steep cliffs or precipices.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Squash bugs.
18. A transmission line for high-frequency signals.
19. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
20. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
23. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
24. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
27. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
28. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
32. A French abbot.
35. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
36. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
37. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
39. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
40. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
41. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
43. Of or relating to or involving an area.
45. In some classifications.
47. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. (informal) Of the highest quality.
54. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
58. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
60. A company emblem or device.
62. The cry made by sheep.
63. Extremely pleasing.
64. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
66. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
67. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
68. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
69. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
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1. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
2. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
3. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
4. Singing jazz.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. (Old Testament) The guardian archangel of the Jews.
7. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
8. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
9. (Greek mythology) Greek goddess of the night.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
17. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
21. Being ahead of time or need.
22. Offering fun and gaiety.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
29. The highest level or degree attainable.
30. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
31. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
33. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
34. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
38. A city and port in northern Jutland.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
44. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
46. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
50. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
52. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
53. Armor plate that protects the chest.
55. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
56. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. Willing to face danger.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
65. A public promotion of some product or service.
66. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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