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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
10. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. Leave voluntarily.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
18. Make nonmagnetic.
20. The sixth month of the civil year.
21. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
22. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. An event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. Tropical African and Indian herbs.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
40. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
42. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
45. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. In the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie.
54. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
58. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
59. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
62. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
63. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
64. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps.
66. The fatty flesh of eel.
67. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
68. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
69. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
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1. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
2. In bed.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. The eleventh month of the civil year.
5. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
6. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
7. A boy or man.
8. To say or state again.
9. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
10. Lie adjacent to another.
11. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
12. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
17. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
19. The residue that remains when something is burned.
24. Summer cypress.
26. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
28. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
29. A large and hurried swallow.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. Half the width of an em.
33. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. Before noon.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A port city in southwestern Iran.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
48. Of a pale purple color.
50. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
52. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
53. The back side of the neck.
55. British politician (1788-1850).
56. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
57. English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606).
60. Not reflecting light.
61. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
65. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
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