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1. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
5. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
10. An honorary degree in science.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. Any spatial attribute (especially as defined by outline).
15. An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force).
16. Large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male.
17. A genus of Mustelidae.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. Wood of a sumac.
28. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
32. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
36. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
38. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
41. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
42. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
43. Of or like a cecum.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
47. The highest level or degree attainable.
50. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
52. A native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
56. Before noon.
57. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
60. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
61. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
63. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
65. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
66. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
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1. Music performed for dancing the polka.
2. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
3. A coarse obnoxious person.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. The act of using.
6. A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
7. An island in Antigua and Barbuda.
8. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
9. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
10. The second largest city in Tunisia.
11. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
12. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
22. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
26. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
27. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
31. Offering fun and gaiety.
33. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
34. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
35. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
39. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
40. A state in midwestern United States.
44. 1 species.
45. An informal term for a father.
46. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
48. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
49. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
54. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
55. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. A toilet in England.
62. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
64. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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