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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
10. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. The power to entice or attract through personal charm.
15. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
16. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
17. Wood of any of various maple trees.
19. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
25. The sport of gliding on skates.
30. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
34. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
35. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
38. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
40. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
41. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
46. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
48. A decree that prohibits something.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
58. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
62. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
63. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
65. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
66. The residue that remains when something is burned.
67. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
68. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
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1. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
4. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
5. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
6. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
7. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
8. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
9. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
10. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
11. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
20. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
24. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
26. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
29. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
31. (informal) Exceptionally good.
32. A genus of Mustelidae.
33. An inhabitant of Lappland.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
52. A vigorous blow.
53. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
55. South African term for `boss'.
56. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
57. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
59. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
60. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
61. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
64. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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