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1. An accountant certified by the state.
4. Small winged insect living on the bark and leaves of trees and feeding on e.g. fungi and decaying plant matter.
10. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
13. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
14. Oblong cream puff.
15. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
16. Sea otters.
18. A genus of Indriidae.
20. Personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation.
21. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.
23. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
25. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
28. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. An informal term for a father.
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
40. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
41. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
45. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
46. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
47. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
50. Put a new facing on, as of a garment.
52. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
56. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
59. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
60. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
63. Usually used in combination.
64. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
65. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
66. A primeval personification of air and breath.
67. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
68. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
69. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
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1. Thick like cream.
2. 100 penni equal 1 markka.
3. A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
6. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. Being one more than one.
9. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
10. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
11. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
12. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
17. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
19. Characteristic of false pride.
22. In bed.
24. Someone who makes an offer.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
36. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
42. A canal for a current of water.
43. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
48. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
49. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
51. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.
57. Extremely robust.
58. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
61. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
62. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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