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1. The month following March and preceding May.
4. A badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together).
10. Inquire about.
13. The sound made by a cow or bull.
14. Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC).
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
17. Do something to an excessive degree.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
21. An informal term for a father.
23. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
25. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
27. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
28. An insane person.
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
36. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
41. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
45. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
47. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
57. Void of thought or knowledge.
60. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
61. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
62. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
65. Extremely pleasing.
66. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
67. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
68. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
2. A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane.
3. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
4. A Dardic language spoken in northwestern Pakistan.
5. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
6. Employed in accomplishing something.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
9. The capital and largest city of Japan.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
22. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
24. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
26. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
29. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
30. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
31. A quantity of no importance.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
39. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
48. An oil port in southern Iraq.
51. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
53. Anything that serves as an enticement.
54. (British slang) Cafe.
55. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
56. A small cake leavened with yeast.
58. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
63. Unknown god.
64. Before noon.
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