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1. A period of time spent sleeping.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
10. A light touch or stroke.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. The act of turning aside suddenly.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
17. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
18. Tag the base runner to get him out.
19. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
21. Being one more than one.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
28. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
31. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
41. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
50. Made clean.
51. (often plural) A command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed.
53. The 10th and last incarnation of Vishnu.
55. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
56. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
59. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
60. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
61. Short and fat.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. Especially one side of a leaf.
4. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
5. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
6. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
7. The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another.
8. Being seven more than fifty.
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. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
11. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
12. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
20. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
22. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
25. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
27. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
29. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
34. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. A nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people.
39. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
43. A loud resonant repeating noise.
44. A large stringed instrument.
45. A farewell remark.
46. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
47. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Type genus of the Bramidae.
52. An informal term for a father.
54. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
57. The military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command.
58. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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