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1. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
5. A French abbot.
9. Money in the form of bills or coins.
13. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
14. One-hundredth of a right angle.
15. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
16. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
17. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
18. With no effort to conceal.
19. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
21. A motley assortment of things.
23. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
25. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
32. Of or denoting or relating to the Balkan countries or their inhabitants or the Balkan peninsula or the Balkan Mountains.
34. First in order of importance.
38. Being one more than one hundred.
39. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
45. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
54. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
56. Before noon.
57. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
63. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
65. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
66. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
67. A state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity.
68. South African term for `boss'.
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1. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
4. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
8. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
9. 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.
10. Jordan's port.
11. Big-eyed scad.
12. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
24. Overgrown with ivy.
27. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
29. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
31. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
36. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
40. Small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings.
41. A city and port in northern Jutland.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
50. Type genus of the Gavidae.
51. Collect or gather.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
58. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
59. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
60. A solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner.
61. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
62. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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