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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. A musician who plays the oboe.
10. (informal) Of very poor quality.
13. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
14. The transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. An oil port in southern Iraq.
21. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
22. Enthusiastic approval.
24. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
26. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
28. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
30. The child of your aunt or uncle.
34. A large truck designed to carry heavy loads.
36. A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy.
37. Before noon.
38. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
40. God of the earth.
41. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. The residue that remains when something is burned.
48. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
50. A warning against certain acts.
53. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
57. The sixth month of the civil year.
58. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
61. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
62. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
66. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
67. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
68. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. The square of a body of any size of type.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. An onerous or difficult concern.
7. A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens.
8. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
9. An analgesic for mild pain.
10. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
11. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
12. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
17. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
20. A fraudulent business scheme.
23. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
25. Of or relating to punishment.
27. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
29. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
31. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
32. In the Roman calendar.
33. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
35. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
39. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
42. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. Watery fluid of the blood that resembles plasma but contains fibrinogen.
48. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
49. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
54. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
55. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
56. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
59. The quantity contained in a keg.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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