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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
5. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
10. A young woman making her debut into society.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
15. A strong emotion.
16. After the expected or usual time.
18. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
20. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
27. A Hindu prince or king in India.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. Go ashore.
38. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
39. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
40. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
42. Perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop.
44. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. Meat from a calf.
47. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
48. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
60. An enclosed space.
61. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
63. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
64. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
65. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
66. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
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1. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
2. Chief port of Yemen.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
5. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
6. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
9. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
10. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
11. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
12. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
17. The bill in a restaurant.
19. A native-born Israeli.
21. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
23. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
29. The lower jawbone in vertebrates.
30. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
32. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
33. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
34. State in northeastern India.
36. A bachelor's degree in religion.
37. A festival featuring African-American culture.
38. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
41. Having winglike extensions.
43. A state in the western United States.
45. American dwarf fan palms.
49. Related to or located at the back.
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
52. A sudden short attack.
53. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
54. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
56. A human limb.
57. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
58. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
62. A state in New England.
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