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1. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
5. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
9. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
13. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
15. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
16. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
17. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
18. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
19. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
21. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
23. A slight amount or degree of difference.
24. A fraudulent business scheme.
26. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
29. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
33. A woman who is engaged to be married.
36. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
38. Muslim name for God.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. German field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II (1891-1944).
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
49. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
53. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
56. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
58. A human limb.
59. The products of human creativity.
63. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
64. The sacred city of Lamaism.
65. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
66. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
67. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
5. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.
6. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
7. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
10. Divulge information or secrets.
11. A salt deposit that animals regularly lick.
12. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
20. A town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
27. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
28. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
30. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. God of the earth.
34. A city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. An informal term for a father.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. 16 ounces.
45. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
47. Lower in esteem.
48. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
50. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
56. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
57. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
60. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
61. An informal term for a father.
62. A castrated tomcat.
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