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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
10. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
13. The act of drawing or hauling something.
14. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
19. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
20. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
23. Type genus of the Ranidae.
24. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
29. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
31. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
34. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
38. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
39. A mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir.
42. A fundamental principle or practice.
43. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
46. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
49. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
51. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
52. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
53. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
54. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
57. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
58. Using speech rather than writing.
59. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.
4. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
5. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
6. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
7. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
8. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
9. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
10. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
11. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
12. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
21. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
22. An associate degree in nursing.
25. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
26. Fallow deer.
27. An enclosed space.
28. (plural) Any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.
30. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
32. A decree that prohibits something.
33. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
35. Insanely irresponsible.
36. A language of Australian aborigines.
37. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
38. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
40. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
41. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
44. French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style (tight bodice and narrow waist and flowing pleated skirt) that became known as the New Look (1905-1957).
45. A Loloish language.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
48. God of love and erotic desire.
50. An awkward stupid person.
55. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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