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1. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
4. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
9. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
13. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
14. United States comedian.
15. A city in northern India.
16. A fraudulent business scheme.
18. Type genus of the Anatidae.
19. A boy or man.
20. A Loloish language.
21. Any of various units of capacity.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. An associate degree in nursing.
27. A Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia.
31. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
34. Having a claw or claws.
36. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. 10 grams.
42. A French abbot.
43. (informal) Exceptionally good.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. Fiddler crabs.
49. A Loloish language.
52. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
54. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
57. A port city in southwestern Iran.
61. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
64. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
66. Filled with fear or apprehension.
69. Having leadership guidance.
70. The month following February and preceding April.
71. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
72. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
4. One million periods per second.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
7. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
8. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
9. One who works hard at boring tasks.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
12. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
17. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. Minor or subordinate.
28. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
29. God of death.
30. A doctor's degree in education.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
38. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. Offering fun and gaiety.
46. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
47. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
53. A light touch or stroke.
55. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
56. Slightly open.
58. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
59. In bed.
60. A quantity of no importance.
62. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
63. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
67. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
68. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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