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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. A severe recurring vascular headache.
10. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
13. A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment.
14. Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness).
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
18. Chief port of Yemen.
19. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
20. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
22. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
28. An honorary degree in science.
30. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
31. South African term for `boss'.
34. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. Informal terms for a mother.
40. Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
44. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
45. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. (informal) Exceptionally good.
54. The act of escaping physically.
57. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
60. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
61. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
64. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
65. A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
66. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
68. (informal) Roused to anger.
69. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
70. Grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. A city in Tuscany.
3. Squash bugs.
4. A master's degree in religion.
5. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. A state of southwestern India.
7. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
8. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
9. Tropical Asian starlings.
10. A large fleet.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
17. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
21. Gone by.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
27. Having leadership guidance.
29. An unforeseen obstacle.
32. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
33. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
35. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
36. Walk or tramp about.
41. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
42. A three-year law degree.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
50. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
51. An active volcano in southeastern Colombia in the Andes.
52. Being one more than three.
53. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
56. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
58. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
59. An informal term for a father.
62. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
63. A human limb.
67. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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