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1. A passage with access only at one end.
4. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
10. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. Common house and field crickets.
15. A periodic paperback publication.
16. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
17. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
18. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
19. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
21. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
23. (informal) Roused to anger.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
28. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
30. The second largest city in Tunisia.
32. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
36. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
37. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. An enclosed space.
43. Dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds.
44. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
47. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
48. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
49. 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.
51. Argentinian cariama.
56. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. (anatomy) Of or relating to the fauces.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. 36th President of the United States.
66. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
67. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
68. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
69. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
70. A light touch or stroke.
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1. The quantity a cask will hold.
2. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
3. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
4. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
7. A genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches).
8. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
9. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
10. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. Advanced in years.
20. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
27. Remove by erasing or crossing out.
29. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
31. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
33. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
34. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
35. 100 sene equal 1 tala.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
45. Being one more than two.
46. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
47. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
50. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
52. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
53. A Hindu prince or king in India.
54. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
55. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
57. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
58. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
59. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
62. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
63. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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