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1. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
5. Lower in esteem.
10. Lacking in light.
13. American novelist (1909-1955).
14. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
15. A strong emotion.
16. A branch of the Tai languages.
17. A lyric poet.
19. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
27. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
29. 10 grams.
30. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
38. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
39. A light touch or stroke.
41. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
42. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
44. Gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something.
47. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
48. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
54. A soft silvery metallic element.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
63. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
66. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
67. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
68. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
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1. A vigorous blow.
2. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
3. Lacking excess flesh.
4. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
5. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. An honorary degree in science.
9. 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.
10. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
11. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
12. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
18. God of wealth and love.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
26. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
33. Common Indian weaverbird.
35. A swift whirling motion (usually of a missile).
36. A local computer network for communication between computers.
37. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
40. The cry made by sheep.
43. A genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF.
44. A small piece of cloth.
45. Humorously sarcastic or mocking.
46. Deprive of by deceit.
50. A city in northern India.
51. With no effort to conceal.
52. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
56. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
58. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
59. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. An associate degree in applied science.
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