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1. Marked by skill in deception.
4. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
10. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
13. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
14. Do something to an excessive degree.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
17. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
19. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
21. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
23. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
28. An awkward stupid person.
30. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
34. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
37. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. An informal term for a father.
44. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
45. 1/10 gram.
46. An ignorant or foolish person.
49. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
51. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
53. A mask with a filter protects the face an lungs against poisonous gases.
56. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
58. A Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram.
61. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
62. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
63. God of wisdom or prophesy.
64. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
65. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
66. (British informal) Ill-tempered or annoyed.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
2. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
3. A language group of the Hokan family.
4. A dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot.
5. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
6. Large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks.
7. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
9. An uproarious party.
10. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
11. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
12. A manicurist who trims the fingernails.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. By bad luck.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809).
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
33. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
35. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
36. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
39. Gases ejected from an engine as waste products.
40. An uproarious party.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A scheming person.
44. A doctor's degree in religion.
47. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
48. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. An associate degree in nursing.
52. Informal terms for clothing.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. God of love and erotic desire.
57. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
59. A decree that prohibits something.
60. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
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