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1. A common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete.
5. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
10. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
14. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
18. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. A city in southwestern Russia in a valley of the Caucasus Mountains.
22. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
31. In bed.
35. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
36. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
37. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
40. 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).
42. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
44. Something done (usually as opposed to something said).
48. A dry swab for dusting floors.
55. A member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas.
56. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
58. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
60. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
62. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
63. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
64. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
65. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. A city of central China.
2. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
3. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
5. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
6. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
7. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
10. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
11. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
12. A deep prolonged loud noise.
17. The sacred city of Lamaism.
21. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
23. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
28. A column of light (as from a beacon).
29. How long something has existed.
30. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
39. (informal) Roused to anger.
41. A large and densely populated urban area.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. Freed from illness or injury.
46. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
47. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
49. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
52. A sudden short attack.
53. The template for protein synthesis.
54. An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).
57. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
61. Before noon.
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