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1. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
4. An unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty.
10. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
13. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
14. A genus of Accipitridae.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. Any plant of the genus Erica.
18. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
19. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
20. A region of Malaysia on northwestern Borneo.
22. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
39. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard.
41. An ability to understand a broad range of topics.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. A pass between mountain peaks.
46. A state in midwestern United States.
47. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
50. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
60. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
63. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
64. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
65. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
67. (informal) Roused to anger.
68. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
69. Cause to feel relaxed.
70. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. Suitable for formal occasions.
2. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
3. In the shape of a coil.
4. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
7. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
8. Being one more than two.
9. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
10. The closing section of a musical composition.
11. A fraudulent business scheme.
12. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
17. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
21. Free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms.
23. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
31. Two items of the same kind.
32. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
33. Toward the mouth or oral region.
35. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
48. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
51. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
53. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
54. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
56. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
57. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
58. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
59. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
61. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
62. The longest division of geological time.
66. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
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