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1. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
4. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
10. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
14. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
15. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
22. Remove from memory or existence.
25. Give in, as to influence or pressure.
26. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
28. How long something has existed.
29. An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a proenzyme to an active enzyme.
32. 32nd President of the United States.
36. Type genus of the Anatidae.
37. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
39. A light touch or stroke.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
46. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
48. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
49. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
50. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
51. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
53. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
55. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
57. Small area set off by walls for special use.
60. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
62. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
65. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
66. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
67. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
69. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
70. The cry made by sheep.
71. Place a value on.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
2. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
3. Flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point.
4. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
7. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
12. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
17. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
21. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
23. Type genus of the Ranidae.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
27. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
30. The general activity of selling.
31. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
33. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
34. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
35. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
38. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
40. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
41. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
44. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
47. A witty saying.
52. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
53. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
56. South African term for `boss'.
58. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
59. God of love and erotic desire.
61. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
63. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
64. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
68. An honorary degree in science.
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