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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
5. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
13. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
14. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Jordan's port.
18. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
19. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
21. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
24. (music) The speed at which a composition is to be played.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. An Eskimo hut.
31. Morally bad or wrong.
35. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
37. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
38. In bed.
39. A primeval personification of air and breath.
41. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
42. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
52. City in northwestern Jordan.
57. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
59. English essayist (1775-1834).
61. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
62. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
63. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
65. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
66. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
67. Of power or authority.
68. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
3. Lacking excess flesh.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. A Russian river.
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
8. A state in northwestern North America.
9. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
10. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
11. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
12. (South African) A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers).
17. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
20. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
22. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
23. God of war and sky.
25. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
26. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
32. A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
33. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
34. An advanced law degree.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
41. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
45. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
46. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. Jordan's port.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
51. Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. The basic unit of money in Iran.
55. A beautiful and graceful girl.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
60. An erratic deflection from an intended course.
64. A state in north central United States.
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