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1. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
10. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
14. A bowl-shaped opening at the top of a volcano.
15. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
16. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
18. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
20. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
23. A blind god.
24. A genus of Platalea.
27. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
33. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
37. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
38. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
39. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
40. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
42. The eleventh month of the civil year.
44. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
51. A fraudulent business scheme.
54. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
57. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
58. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
60. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
63. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
64. Fly a plane.
67. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
68. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
69. French novelist.
70. The cry made by sheep.
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1. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
2. Affectedly dainty or refined.
3. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
4. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
9. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
10. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
11. A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England.
12. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
17. Jordan's port.
19. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
21. A light touch or stroke.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
26. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
28. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
29. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
32. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
34. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
35. An associate degree in nursing.
36. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
41. God of love and erotic desire.
43. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
45. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. A particular environment or walk of life.
50. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
52. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
53. In bed.
55. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
61. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
62. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
65. A state in the eastern United States.
66. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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