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1. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
5. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
10. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
13. Fallow deer.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. 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.
18. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
19. (informal) Of the highest quality.
20. Protective covering made of metal and used in combat.
21. A column of light (as from a beacon).
23. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
25. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. Being nine more than ninety.
35. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
37. How long something has existed.
39. An informal term for a father.
42. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
46. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. A flexible container with a single opening.
54. A native-born Israeli.
58. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
66. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
67. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
70. A unit of pressure.
71. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
72. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
73. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
3. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
4. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
7. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
8. Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.
9. A decree that prohibits something.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
11. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
12. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
22. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
29. A French abbot.
31. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
38. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
44. An associate degree in applied science.
48. The cry made by sheep.
50. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
51. American Revolutionary patriot.
52. Obvious and dull.
53. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
55. (botany) Especially of leaves.
56. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
57. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
59. Dearly loved.
60. In bed.
65. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
68. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
69. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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