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1. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
4. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
10. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
13. Being one more than two.
14. The largest city of Cameroon.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. Port city in northwest Portugal.
18. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
19. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
20. No longer in existence.
22. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
24. The second largest state.
25. Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire.
27. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
36. A Russian river.
37. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
42. Causing fear or dread or terror.
44. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
45. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
46. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
49. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
53. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
55. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
56. Divulge information or secrets.
57. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
61. 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.
63. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
65. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
66. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
67. A state in New England.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube.
2. A Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Vioxx) that relieves pain without harming the digestive tract.
3. Channel into a new direction.
4. A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.
5. An uproarious party.
6. Full of ruts.
7. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
9. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
10. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
11. The act of scanning.
12. A three-tone Chadic language.
17. Showing fear and lack of confidence.
21. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
23. An informal term for a father.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
30. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
38. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
39. Make amends for.
40. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
41. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
50. Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
51. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
52. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
53. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. Black tropical American cuckoo.
59. The force of workers available.
60. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
62. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
64. Before noon.
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