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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
13. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
14. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
15. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
16. Type genus of the Majidae.
18. Deeply moved.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. A Mid-Atlantic state.
23. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
28. A genus of Ploceidae.
33. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
40. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
42. A decree that prohibits something.
43. The month following March and preceding May.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
48. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
51. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
55. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
57. Membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi.
60. A bachelor's degree in religion.
61. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. The sixth month of the civil year.
66. Any competition.
67. Divulge information or secrets.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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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. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
4. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
5. That is to say.
6. Not widely known.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.
9. An informal term for a father.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
11. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy.
12. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
17. A port city in southwestern Iran.
19. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
29. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
30. Dearly loved.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. An informal term for a father.
36. Cause to be embarrassed.
37. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
38. Half the width of an em.
41. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
44. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
46. A plain plinth that supports a wall.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
52. The template for protein synthesis.
53. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
58. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
59. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
63. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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