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1. Chief port of Yemen.
5. (botany) Especially of leaves.
10. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
13. English monk and scholar (672-735).
14. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
15. An advanced law degree.
16. A building where prostitutes are available.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
20. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
29. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
30. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
34. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
36. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
38. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
39. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
40. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
42. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
44. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. Someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination).
59. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
61. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
64. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
65. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
67. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
69. The sixth month of the civil year.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A French abbot.
2. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
3. At or constituting a border or edge.
4. Wife of Balder.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
8. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
9. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
10. Speaking a Slavic language.
11. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
12. Type genus of the Amiidae.
18. God of death.
21. A nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people.
22. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
24. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
25. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
27. Two items of the same kind.
28. English essayist (1775-1834).
31. Divulge information or secrets.
32. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
33. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
35. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
41. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
43. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
45. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
48. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
55. An informal term for a father.
57. A thrusting blow with a knife.
58. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
60. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
62. (informal) Roused to anger.
63. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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