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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. Largest crested screamer.
10. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
17. Swiss hotelier who created a chain of elegant hotels (1850-1918).
19. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
21. Dutch physicist honored for his research on the influence of magnetism on radiation which showed that light is radiated by the motion of charged particles in an atom (1865-1943).
23. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
29. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
31. A seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean).
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
36. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
37. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
38. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
41. In bed.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. A French abbot.
45. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
48. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
55. Deciduous shrub of North America.
59. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
63. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
64. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
65. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
68. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
69. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
70. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
71. Goddess of fate.
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1. South African term for `boss'.
2. A city in northern India.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. A large fleet.
5. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
6. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
7. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
8. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
9. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
11. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
12. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. An outstanding example of its kind.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A city in western Germany.
28. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
30. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
32. Not only so, but.
33. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
34. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
39. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. Suggestive of the supernatural.
42. A light touch or stroke.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
47. A homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned.
51. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
52. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
53. Fallow deer.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
57. A human female who does housework.
58. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
60. Tag the base runner to get him out.
62. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
66. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
67. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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