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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
10. The airforce of Great Britain.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
18. Insanely irresponsible.
20. A state in northwestern North America.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Look down on with disdain.
23. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
26. Someone who consumes food for nourishment.
27. Being one more than one.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
31. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
36. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
39. A primeval personification of air and breath.
40. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
41. Before noon.
43. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
44. A master's degree in business.
45. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
46. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
50. Limbless scaly elongate reptile.
54. A doctor's degree in optometry.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
60. A Hindu prince or king in India.
63. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.
64. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
65. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
66. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
67. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
68. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
8. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
9. The amount a salary is increased.
10. Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.
11. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
12. (a dated Briticism) A serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
17. A port city in southwestern Iran.
19. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. 1 species.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
32. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
34. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
35. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
37. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
47. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
48. A Russian river.
49. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
51. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
55. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
57. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
58. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
59. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
61. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. Preserve of crushed fruit.
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