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1. A boy or man.
4. An oldster in his dotage.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
15. The quantity that can be held in a mug.
16. That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings.
18. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
20. (informal) Elegant and fashionable.
21. Any of various small biting flies.
24. Avatar of Vishnu.
25. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
28. An associate degree in nursing.
29. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
31. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
34. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
39. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
40. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
41. A bachelor's degree in science.
43. Take in solid food.
44. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
46. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
48. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
50. The capital of Croatia.
52. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
56. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
59. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
60. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
63. A city in northern India.
64. American novelist (1909-1955).
65. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
67. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
68. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
69. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
70. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. An inhabitant of Lappland.
2. In addition.
3. A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.
4. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
5. The ending of a series or sequence.
6. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
7. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
8. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
9. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
10. Type genus of the Amiidae.
11. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
12. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
17. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
19. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
22. A state in New England.
23. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
26. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. A unit of length equal to 1760 yards.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. How long something has existed.
35. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
37. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
38. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
47. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
49. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
51. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
53. A brass instrument without valves.
54. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
55. Having winglike extensions.
57. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
58. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
61. An associate degree in applied science.
62. A newt in its terrestrial stage of development.
66. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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