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1. Enlarged prostate.
4. A kind of sedan chair used in India.
10. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
13. Towards the side away from the wind.
14. A volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. An atom or molecule or radical or ion that forms a complex around a central atom.
18. The month following March and preceding May.
19. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
21. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
23. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
26. Being one more than fifty.
27. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
30. Someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself.
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. Heard through another rather than directly.
38. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
40. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
41. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
42. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
45. A state in northwestern North America.
46. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
47. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
49. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
52. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps.
56. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
57. God of love and erotic desire.
61. Greek mythology.
62. Characteristic of false pride.
64. An oil port in southern Iraq.
66. Black tropical American cuckoo.
67. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
68. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
69. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. Heal or recover.
4. Rebuffed (by a lover) without warning.
5. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
6. One millionth of a gram.
7. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings.
8. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
9. A quantity of no importance.
10. Not only so, but.
11. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
12. Very large red gum tree.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
24. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
25. American Revolutionary leader (born in Prussia) who trained the troops under George Washington (1730-1794).
28. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
29. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
31. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
32. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
34. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. Noisy talk.
39. Offering little or no hope.
43. The airforce of Great Britain.
44. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
48. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
51. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
53. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
54. A Russian river.
55. A female domestic.
58. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
59. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
60. The residue that remains when something is burned.
63. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
65. Not out.
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