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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
9. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
13. (informal) Of the highest quality.
14. The fifth month of the Hindu calendar.
15. An elaborate song for solo voice.
16. (informal) Very tired.
18. Any competition.
19. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
20. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. Extremely pleasing.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
29. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
38. A young woman making her debut into society.
39. One who works hard at boring tasks.
40. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
43. 16 ounces.
44. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
46. Gull family.
51. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
52. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
55. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
59. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
60. English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806).
63. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
64. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
65. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
67. Being one more than two.
68. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
69. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
70. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
3. Dearly loved.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. A bottle with a stopper.
6. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
7. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
8. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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 narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
17. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Heal or recover.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
32. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
34. A French abbot.
37. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
42. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
45. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. Jordan's port.
49. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
50. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
53. Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier.
54. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
56. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
57. The habitation of wild animals.
58. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
61. A master's degree in theology.
62. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
66. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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