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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes.
10. The residue that remains when something is burned.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
18. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
19. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. Wear away.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
32. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. A loose cloak with a hood.
41. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
43. An informal term for a father.
44. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
45. Informal terms for a mother.
47. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
49. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
53. Greek mythology.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
61. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
62. A police officer who investigates crimes.
63. The first canonical hour.
65. An informal debt instrument.
66. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
67. A port city in southwestern Iran.
68. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
69. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
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1. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
2. Lose blood from one's body.
3. Young sheep.
4. A doctor's degree in optometry.
5. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
6. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
7. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
8. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
9. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
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. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. A Scottish word.
29. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
30. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
31. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
33. Seed of a pea plant.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
38. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
40. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
42. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
46. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
48. Strong and sharp.
50. In bed.
51. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. Marked by the reception of pay.
55. Very dark black.
56. Largest known toad species.
59. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
60. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
61. A public promotion of some product or service.
64. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
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