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1. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
5. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
9. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
13. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
14. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
15. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
16. (informal) Very tired.
17. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
18. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
19. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
21. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
23. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
24. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Make larger.
31. (informal) Of the highest quality.
35. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
36. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
39. A Japanese supervisor.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A pass between mountain peaks.
44. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
48. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
52. The girl friend of a gangster.
53. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
55. A branch of the Tai languages.
56. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
58. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
61. A master's degree in business.
62. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
63. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
65. Tag the base runner to get him out.
66. Take in solid food.
67. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood.
2. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
3. Largest crested screamer.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
5. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
6. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
7. Pig iron containing manganese.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. A covering to disguise or conceal the face.
12. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
20. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
22. An unimaginably large amount.
25. Move out of a dock.
28. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
29. Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail.
30. The longest division of geological time.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
34. A state in the eastern United States.
37. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. By bad luck.
42. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
45. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
46. Selected as the best.
47. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
49. A genus of Lamnidae.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Jordan's port.
54. South African term for `boss'.
57. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
59. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
60. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
64. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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