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1. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
4. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
10. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
13. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
14. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. (informal) Roused to anger.
17. A small tasty bit of food.
18. How long something has existed.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
22. Informal terms for a human head.
24. Gradually decreasing in tempo and volume.
26. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
32. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
37. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
41. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. A Loloish language.
50. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
54. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
62. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
63. Having leadership guidance.
64. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
65. A loud harsh or strident noise.
66. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
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1. Wood of a sumac.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
4. The products of human creativity.
5. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
6. A tax on various goods brought into a town.
7. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
8. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
9. Any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
11. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
12. Chief port of Yemen.
20. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
23. A releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body.
25. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
29. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
30. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
31. A visual presentation showing how something works.
33. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
45. The airforce of Great Britain.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. Leafless East Indian vine.
49. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
50. The quality of a person's voice.
51. In bed.
52. A quantity of no importance.
53. One of the common people.
55. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
56. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
57. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
60. Seek someone's favor.
61. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
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