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1. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
4. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
9. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
18. A light medieval helmet with a slit for vision.
19. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
20. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
21. A primeval personification of air and breath.
22. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
30. Cast again.
34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
37. Being two more than fifty.
38. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
39. A Mid-Atlantic state.
42. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
46. Fiddler crabs.
47. Make less visible or unclear.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
50. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
51. A large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout.
55. A fraudulent business scheme.
60. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
61. A port in southwestern Scotland.
63. A notable achievement.
64. In or of the month preceding the present one.
65. (biology) Rough to the touch.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Indigo bush.
4. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
7. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
8. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
9. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
11. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
12. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
17. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. 1/10 gram.
26. Before noon.
28. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
31. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
32. Being three more than fifty.
33. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
35. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
36. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
40. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
41. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
42. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
43. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. Noisy quarrel.
49. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
53. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. A quantity of no importance.
56. The products of human creativity.
57. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
58. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
59. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
60. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
62. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
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