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1. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
4. Something hard to endure.
9. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
14. (Babylonian) Any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii.
15. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
16. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
17. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
18. Make editorial changes (in a text).
19. Effusively or insincerely emotional.
21. Supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu.
23. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
24. An implement used to erase something.
25. Pain in a muscle or group of muscles.
28. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
29. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
31. A bachelor's degree in religion.
34. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. Old material that is slightly reworked and used again.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. Chief port of Yemen.
47. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
51. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. Look at with amorous intentions.
58. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
59. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
62. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
63. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
64. The univalent radical CH3- derived from methane.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
4. Align anew or better.
5. Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins).
6. A former British gold coin worth 21 chillings.
7. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
8. Shaped like a ring.
9. A green transparent form of beryl.
10. Type genus of the Gadidae.
11. A vowel-like sound that serves as a consonant.
12. A stringed instrument of India.
20. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
22. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
26. Not only so, but.
27. A city in northern India.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
33. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
35. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
36. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune.
37. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
38. A vowel-like sound that serves as a consonant.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. A doctor's degree in education.
43. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. In addition.
49. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
50. A person who evokes boredom.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. God of love and erotic desire.
56. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
57. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
60. Before noon.
61. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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