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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. To fix or set securely or deeply.
10. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
13. Loose or flaccid body fat.
14. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
17. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
18. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
21. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
23. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
24. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
35. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
41. By bad luck.
45. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
46. Common Indian weaverbird.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
50. Avatar of Vishnu.
52. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
55. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
58. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
60. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
61. Of or relating to the feet.
64. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
65. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
66. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
67. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
68. A small island.
69. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
2. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
3. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
5. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
6. A runner in a one-mile race.
7. (informal) Exceptionally good.
8. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
9. A Mid-Atlantic state.
10. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
11. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
12. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
20. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
22. An honorary degree in science.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
30. Offering fun and gaiety.
31. Distant in either space or time.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
39. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Possible to sell.
43. Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC).
44. Being ten more than one hundred.
49. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
51. Jordan's port.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
56. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
57. A cry of sorrow and grief.
58. Before noon.
59. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
62. Late time of life.
63. A doctor's degree in education.
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