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1. A castrated tomcat.
4. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
10. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
13. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
14. A line of approach.
15. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. Cricket frogs.
18. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
19. Take in solid food.
20. A member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho.
22. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
25. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
29. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. English monk and scholar (672-735).
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
40. Become wider.
42. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
43. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. God of death.
47. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
50. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
52. Fiddler crabs.
55. An accidental happening.
59. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
60. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
61. A quantity of no importance.
62. How long something has existed.
63. Squash bugs.
64. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
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1. Taken or to be taken at random.
2. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
3. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
4. Born out of wedlock.
5. The eleventh month of the civil year.
6. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
9. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
10. A member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock.
11. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
12. Informal terms for a meal.
17. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
31. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
34. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
35. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
38. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
39. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
40. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
41. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
42. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
45. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
48. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
49. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
51. (Roman mythology) Roman god of death.
52. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
53. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
54. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
56. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
57. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
58. One or some or every or all without specification.
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