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1. How long something has existed.
4. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
10. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
13. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
14. A deep bow.
15. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed.
18. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
31. Understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something.
34. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
36. Before noon.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. An audiotape recording of sound.
40. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
42. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
47. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula.
54. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
56. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
59. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
60. An Asian temple.
64. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
65. God of the underworld.
66. Exultantly proud and joyful.
67. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
68. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
69. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
70. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. Expel, as of gases and odors.
4. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
5. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
6. (comparative of `close') Indicating the one of two that is the shorter distance away.
7. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. The square of a body of any size of type.
10. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
11. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
12. A kiln for drying hops.
20. By bad luck.
22. A flexible container with a single opening.
24. A member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire.
26. Small genus of South American evergreen vines.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
32. A fraudulent business scheme.
33. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
35. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
37. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
41. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
43. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
45. The capital and largest city of Japan.
48. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
50. English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605).
51. Lower in esteem.
53. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
54. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. Type genus of the Ranidae.
58. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
61. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
63. A young woman making her debut into society.
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