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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
10. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
13. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
14. Of or relating to or associated with the moon.
15. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
16. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
17. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
18. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
19. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
21. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
27. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
30. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
31. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
34. A republic in northeastern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
37. A deep bow.
40. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
41. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
46. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
55. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
58. 20 aspers equal 1 kuru.
60. A boy or man.
61. Find repugnant.
64. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
65. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
66. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
67. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
69. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
3. Any small compartment.
4. Slanderous defamation.
5. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
6. A professional killer who uses a gun.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. A region in central Italy.
9. Of or relating to or involving an area.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
22. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
23. (Greek mythology) The last king of Troy.
26. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
28. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
29. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
36. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. Jordan's port.
39. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
42. The sound made by corvine birds.
43. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
44. The month following February and preceding April.
47. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
50. A song that was formerly popular.
51. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
52. A drama set to music.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
56. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
57. Very dark black.
58. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
62. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
63. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
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