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1. A small amount of liquid food.
4. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
10. Be obliged to pay or repay.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. Thorn apple.
15. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
16. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
18. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
19. A doctor's degree in education.
20. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
22. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
24. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
26. A light touch or stroke.
27. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
30. Slightly open.
35. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
38. Jordan's port.
40. Of or like a cecum.
42. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
43. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
44. An honorary arts degree.
46. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
47. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
50. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
52. The act of scanning.
54. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
58. An informal debt instrument.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. The products of human creativity.
64. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
65. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
66. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
67. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
68. The month following January and preceding March.
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1. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
2. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
3. Especially one side of a leaf.
4. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
5. An informal term for a father.
6. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. A passage with access only at one end.
8. A large fleet.
9. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
12. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
17. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
32. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
33. In bed.
34. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
36. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
37. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
39. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
41. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
45. (logic or grammar) Of or relating to scope.
48. Fruit of the oak tree.
49. Fried quickly in a little fat.
51. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
53. Humble request for help.
55. (British slang) Cafe.
56. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
57. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
59. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
62. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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