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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. Offering little or no hope.
9. Especially one side of a leaf.
13. The habitation of wild animals.
14. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
15. Advanced in years.
16. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
17. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
18. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. A town in northern Egypt.
23. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
26. Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward.
27. Not alert or attentive.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
39. Make or become free of frost or ice.
42. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
44. Being two more than forty.
46. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
49. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
51. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
56. Wife of Balder.
57. (Irish) The sea personified.
60. The longest division of geological time.
61. Used of a single unit or thing.
62. Relating to or near the radius.
63. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
2. Not only so, but.
3. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
4. Any of various units of capacity.
5. On the side away from the wind.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. Affected manners intended to impress others.
8. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
9. Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America.
10. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
11. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
12. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
20. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. Put (things or places) in order.
25. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
28. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
29. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
31. An informal term for a father.
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide.
37. Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae.
38. Not genuine.
39. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
40. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
41. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
43. Greek mythology.
45. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
47. Chief port of Yemen.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
52. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
53. Type genus of the Ranidae.
58. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
59. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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