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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
10. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
13. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
14. The person who plays that position on a football team.
15. Water frozen in the solid state.
16. Republic in northern Europe.
19. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan.
20. An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC.
22. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
25. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
26. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
29. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
32. Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado n 1.
33. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
34. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
35. A licensed medical practitioner.
36. Any high mountain.
38. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
43. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine.
45. European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.
47. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
48. Elk or moose.
53. English essayist (1775-1834).
56. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
57. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
59. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. Wool of the alpaca.
63. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
64. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
65. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
66. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
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1. Quick and skillful in movement.
2. Type genus of the Amiidae.
3. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
4. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
5. A decree that prohibits something.
6. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
7. A state in northwestern North America.
8. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska.
9. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
10. An unwholesome atmosphere.
11. (prefix) Outside or outer.
12. A state of confusion and disorderliness.
17. Of a pale purple color.
18. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
21. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
23. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
24. Garlic mayonnaise.
27. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
28. A fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed.
30. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
31. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
37. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
39. The highest level or degree attainable.
42. The content of cognition.
44. A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas).
46. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
49. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
50. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
54. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
55. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
58. A light touch or stroke.
62. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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