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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat.
10. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
13. The habitation of wild animals.
14. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
17. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
22. Grind together, of teeth.
24. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
26. The highest level or degree attainable.
28. The superior of an abbey of monks.
31. An electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit.
35. Taken or to be taken at random.
37. God of love and erotic desire.
38. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
42. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
43. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
45. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. A flexible container with a single opening.
50. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
53. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
56. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
65. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
66. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
67. A town in central Kansas.
69. A small piece of cloth.
70. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
71. Submerged freshwater perennials.
72. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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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. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
4. A doctor's degree in theology.
5. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
6. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
7. A centare is 1/100th of an are.
8. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
9. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
10. Humble request for help.
11. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
12. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
20. An indistinct shapeless form.
23. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
25. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. (informal) Exceptionally good.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
33. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
34. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. A light touch or stroke.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. God of death.
46. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A bitter quarrel between two parties.
52. A French abbot.
54. The capital and largest city of Norway.
55. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
57. A city in northern India.
58. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
59. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
61. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
63. Used of a single unit or thing.
64. The cry made by sheep.
68. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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