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1. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
5. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
9. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
13. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
14. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
15. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
16. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
17. A major god.
18. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
19. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
21. Baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables.
23. A genus of Lamnidae.
26. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
28. Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980).
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
34. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. Genus of Old World herbs.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
44. A festival featuring African-American culture.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
49. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
51. A city in northern India.
56. Highly excited.
60. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
61. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
62. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
63. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
66. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
67. An accidental happening.
68. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
2. The content of cognition.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
5. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
10. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
11. Hardened sugary exudation of various trees.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
25. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
29. A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food.
30. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
32. Avatar of Vishnu.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
38. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
40. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
41. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
45. Filled with fear or apprehension.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
51. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
52. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
53. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
54. Tropical Asian starlings.
55. Fallow deer.
57. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
58. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. Offering fun and gaiety.
64. A state in northwestern North America.
65. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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