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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
10. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
13. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
14. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
17. Worn until no longer useful.
19. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
20. The act of scanning.
22. A quantity of no importance.
23. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
25. Jordan's port.
27. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
29. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
33. The cry made by sheep.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
38. A doctor's degree in optometry.
40. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
43. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
44. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
45. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
48. The word class that qualifies verbs or clauses.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
57. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
60. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
62. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
65. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
66. (informal) Of the highest quality.
67. Common house and field crickets.
68. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
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1. Fallow deer.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A stiff cap with ridges across the crown.
4. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
5. South African term for `boss'.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
8. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
9. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
10. Offering fun and gaiety.
11. Advanced in years.
12. An informal term for a father.
18. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
21. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
26. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
28. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
30. God of death.
31. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
32. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
39. Bar temporarily.
41. A resource.
42. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. Lower in esteem.
49. Enthusiastic approval.
51. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
54. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
56. British politician (1788-1850).
58. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
59. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
60. Unknown god.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
64. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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