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1. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
4. An authoritative person who divines the future.
10. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
13. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
14. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. An antibiotic (a semisynthetic oral penicillin (trade names Amoxil and Larotid and Polymox and Trimox and Augmentin)) used to treat bacterial infections.
20. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
21. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
22. Imprudently incurring risk.
23. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
25. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
27. An honorary degree in science.
29. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
30. Advanced in years.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. Fallow deer.
41. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
44. City in Sudan.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
49. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
51. Half the width of an em.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
60. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
61. 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.
65. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
66. Of or relating to a wedding.
67. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
70. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. A French abbot.
2. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. A doctor's degree in optometry.
5. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
8. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
9. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
10. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
11. A state of extreme happiness.
12. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
17. Type genus of the Anatidae.
19. Toward the mouth or oral region.
24. Any of various units of capacity.
26. A small skullcap.
28. A fraudulent business scheme.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
36. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
37. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
39. The mother of Jesus.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. Used of a single unit or thing.
43. A decree that prohibits something.
45. Not only so, but.
50. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
56. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
62. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
63. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
64. A young woman making her debut into society.
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