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1. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
4. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
10. The residue that remains when something is burned.
13. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
14. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
18. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
19. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
20. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
22. A covered passageway.
24. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
27. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
31. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
32. United States chemist (1839-1903).
36. Cry plaintively.
37. An informal term for a father.
38. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
39. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. Covered with beads of liquid.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
52. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
55. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
59. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
60. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
62. An informal term for a father.
63. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. (British) Your grandmother.
67. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
68. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
69. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
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1. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
2. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
3. Shrubby Japanese tree having pale pink blossoms.
4. A mountainous region in central Italy.
5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
6. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
7. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
8. English essayist (1775-1834).
9. A motley assortment of things.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
12. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
17. Related on the father's side.
21. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
23. Baby bed with high sides.
25. Wool of the alpaca.
26. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
29. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
30. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
33. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
34. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
35. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
40. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
41. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
49. Obvious and dull.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. Large luxurious car.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
57. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
58. An unofficial association of people or groups.
61. The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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