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1. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
5. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
10. A unit of pressure.
13. (prefix) Within.
14. Squash bugs.
15. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
17. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
19. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
21. Inability to walk.
23. Informal terms for a mother.
25. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
26. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
29. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
39. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
40. The father of your father or mother.
41. Having a claw or claws.
42. Informal terms for a mother.
43. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
44. Distant in either space or time.
45. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
46. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
48. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
50. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
54. Lower in esteem.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. Twist or braid together, interlace.
63. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
64. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
65. A port city in southwestern Iran.
66. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
67. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
68. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
69. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
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1. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
2. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
3. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
4. Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
8. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
9. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
10. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
11. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
12. Among the largest bony fish.
18. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
20. The cry made by sheep.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
27. A city in northern India.
28. A human female who does housework.
30. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
32. An awkward stupid person.
33. American novelist (1909-1955).
34. A quantity of no importance.
36. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
38. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
42. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
47. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
48. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
52. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
53. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
54. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
56. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
57. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
62. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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