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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. Material used to daub walls.
13. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
14. Jordan's port.
15. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
16. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
18. A rounded projection or protuberance.
19. Slow to learn or understand.
20. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
21. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
22. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
28. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
32. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
35. Send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code.
39. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
40. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
43. God of wealth and love.
44. The cry made by sheep.
47. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
51. 16 ounces.
52. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
55. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
58. Enchanter's nightshade.
60. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
61. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
62. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
63. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
66. A local computer network for communication between computers.
67. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
69. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
70. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
71. A penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
3. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
4. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
5. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
6. Roman Catholic theologian (1585-1638).
7. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
10. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
11. Cause to lose one's nerve.
12. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
17. Filled with a great quantity.
23. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
29. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
30. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A city in east central Texas.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. A cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin).
42. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. A port city in southwestern Iran.
50. A state of northeastern India.
53. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
54. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
55. An uproarious party.
56. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
59. Shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive.
64. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
68. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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