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1. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
10. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
13. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
14. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
15. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
18. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Lower in esteem.
33. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
36. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
40. The cry made by sheep.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
43. Any of numerous small food fishes.
46. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
48. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
49. The academic world.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
57. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
58. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
63. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
65. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
66. The month following March and preceding May.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. A young woman making her debut into society.
69. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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1. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
2. The Teutonic god of thunder.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
7. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
10. An informal term for a father.
11. Jordan's port.
12. Wood of a sumac.
20. By bad luck.
22. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
25. How long something has existed.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
29. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
30. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
32. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
34. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
35. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
37. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
38. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
39. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
40. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
42. The closing section of a musical composition.
44. A state in southeastern United States.
45. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
51. Slightly open.
52. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
54. Set down according to a plan.
55. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
59. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
60. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
64. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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