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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
9. God of love and erotic desire.
13. (Irish) The sea personified.
14. A town in central Belgium.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
17. Bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream.
19. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
20. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
22. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
23. Lower in esteem.
26. A state in New England.
27. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. A light touch or stroke.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
38. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
40. Advanced in years.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
44. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
46. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
47. Jordan's port.
52. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
56. The capital of Morocco.
57. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
60. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
62. Wear away.
64. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
65. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
66. A motley assortment of things.
67. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. An embarrassing mistake.
2. Stalk of a moss capsule.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
5. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
6. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
7. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
8. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
9. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
10. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. In bed.
18. Suggestive of the supernatural.
21. An informal term for a father.
24. A native-born Israeli.
25. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
28. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
29. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
31. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
32. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
33. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
36. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
37. A genus of Ploceidae.
39. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
48. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
49. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
50. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
51. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
53. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
54. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
55. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
58. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
59. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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