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1. A ball of yarn or cord or thread.
5. Enthusiastic approval.
10. A unit of pressure.
13. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
14. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
15. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
16. A motley assortment of things.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
20. English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981).
22. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
26. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
27. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
30. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
36. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
38. Marked by smartness in dress and manners.
40. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
46. Person who does no work.
48. A long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
53. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
54. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
56. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
66. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
67. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
68. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
69. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
2. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
3. At or constituting a border or edge.
4. (of the feet of some animals) Having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin.
5. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
6. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
7. A boy or man.
8. By bad luck.
9. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
10. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
11. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
12. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
17. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
19. Meat from an adult domestic bovine.
21. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
23. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. A native of ancient Troy.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
31. The cry made by sheep.
33. The basic unit of money in Iran.
34. A small island.
35. A human female who does housework.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
41. French philosopher and theologian.
42. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
50. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
51. A bachelor's degree in religion.
55. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
57. God of fire.
58. An elaborate song for solo voice.
59. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
61. Characteristic of a mob.
62. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
64. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
65. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
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