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1. A group of countries in special alliance.
5. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
10. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
13. An extravagantly enthusiastic review.
14. Of or relating to or involving an area.
15. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
16. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
17. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
19. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
21. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
23. Conforming to truth.
25. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
26. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. The oily secretion of the sebaceous glands.
35. Informal terms for a meal.
37. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. How long something has existed.
40. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. A resort city in western Florida.
46. Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges.
48. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
50. A light touch or stroke.
53. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
55. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
59. The sixth month of the civil year.
61. Jordan's port.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
68. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
69. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
70. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
2. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
3. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
4. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
5. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
6. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
8. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. Being nine more than forty.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
12. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
18. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
20. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
22. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
24. The cry made by sheep.
27. Fallow deer.
28. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
33. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
34. Being precisely fitting and right.
36. The month following August and preceding October.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
43. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
44. A shade of blue tinged with green.
47. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
49. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
54. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
56. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
57. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
58. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
60. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. A decree that prohibits something.
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