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1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A large and stately mansion.
10. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
13. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
14. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
15. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
16. (Irish) Ancient Irish god (probably a god of the sun).
17. A piece of armor plate below the breastplate.
18. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
19. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
21. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
23. The cry made by sheep.
24. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
26. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
28. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
32. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
34. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. A light touch or stroke.
40. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. Before noon.
45. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
46. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
52. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
56. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
57. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
59. A French abbot.
62. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
63. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
65. Extremely pleasing.
66. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
67. A plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. A Russian river.
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1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. Make a vibrant sound, as of some birds.
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
4. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn.
7. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
8. Not having or covered with a lid or lids.
9. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
10. Jordan's port.
11. English monk and scholar (672-735).
12. Type genus of the Majidae.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
25. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
27. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
29. Unknown god.
30. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
31. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
33. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
35. A doctor's degree in optometry.
37. Largest known toad species.
39. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines.
48. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
49. Of or relating to or involving an area.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Jordan's port.
53. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
54. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
58. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
60. A decree that prohibits something.
61. A master's degree in fine arts.
64. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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