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1. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
4. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
10. A light touch or stroke.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. One of two alternative forms of a genes that can have the same locus on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative traits.
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. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
17. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
19. A thrusting blow with a knife.
21. A Mid-Atlantic state.
22. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
28. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
29. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. Not divisible by two.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. An associate degree in nursing.
43. A motley assortment of things.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
49. A genus of Ploceidae.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
53. 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.
57. Not carefully or expertly made.
60. Elegant and stylish.
63. The month following February and preceding April.
64. A case for containing a set of articles.
65. (of words) Formed in imitation of a natural sound.
67. A city in the European part of Russia.
68. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
69. A genus of tropical and subtropical Old World climbers or shrubs or trees.
70. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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1. Large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters.
2. Having winglike extensions.
3. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
4. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
5. Wearing or provided with clothing.
6. The mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations.
7. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
8. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
9. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
10. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
11. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
12. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
18. The closing section of a musical composition.
20. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
23. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
26. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
30. Informal terms for a mother.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
35. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
36. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. In bed.
45. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
48. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
49. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
50. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
54. An Asian river between China and Russia.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. Toward the mouth or oral region.
58. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
59. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
61. To what extent or amount or degree.
62. Being one more than two.
66. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
67. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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