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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
10. A person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war.
13. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
14. Consisting of or made of cedar.
15. The residue that remains when something is burned.
16. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
18. A light touch or stroke.
19. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
21. Grasshopper with short antennae.
23. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
24. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
25. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
27. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
30. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
32. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A federally chartered savings bank.
40. Jordan's port.
42. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. (computer science) A unit for measuring computing power.
50. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
51. Filled with vapor.
55. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
59. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
60. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
63. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
64. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
65. A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
67. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
68. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
69. A mite of the genus Acarus.
70. Black tropical American cuckoo.
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1. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
6. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
7. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
8. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
9. Either extremity of something that has length.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
11. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
12. A very large person.
17. Costing 10 dollars.
20. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
22. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
31. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
33. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
35. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
36. Fallow deer.
38. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
39. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
41. South African term for `boss'.
43. Of time long past.
46. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
47. An informal term for a father.
48. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
49. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
52. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
53. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
54. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. Very dark black.
58. Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood.
61. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
62. An informal debt instrument.
66. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
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