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1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
10. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. A South American river.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
17. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
19. By bad luck.
21. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
23. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
25. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
34. Ground snakes.
37. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Singing jazz.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
47. Elegant and sumptuous.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
49. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
50. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
51. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
55. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
59. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
60. Situated at an apex.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. A periodic paperback publication.
66. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
67. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
70. The cry made by sheep.
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1. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
4. The month following March and preceding May.
5. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
6. Toward the mouth or oral region.
7. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. Unknown god.
10. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
11. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
18. A fraudulent business scheme.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
24. Water frozen in the solid state.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
32. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
33. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
35. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
36. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. A region in central Italy.
42. On or toward the lee.
44. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
53. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. Material used to daub walls.
57. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
58. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
61. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
62. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
63. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
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