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1. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
10. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Jordan's port.
18. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
19. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. Informal terms for a mother.
21. Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles.
22. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
27. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
28. Slanderous defamation.
30. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Distant in either space or time.
41. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
46. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
48. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
49. Make unhappy.
50. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
51. Armor plate that protects the chest.
52. Slightly open.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
62. Noisy talk.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
67. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
68. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
69. A port city in southwestern Iran.
70. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
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1. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
2. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
3. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. Accumulate on the surface.
7. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
8. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
9. An associate degree in applied science.
10. Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored.
11. 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.
12. The sound of laughing.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
32. Dress like a dandy.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
36. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
38. A large number or amount.
39. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
40. A yearning for something or to do something.
42. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
43. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
45. A cry of praise or adoration (to God).
47. 10 grams.
53. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
55. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
57. A Loloish language.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
61. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
63. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
66. An associate degree in nursing.
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