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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or the keel of a ship.
10. How long something has existed.
13. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
14. Greek god of light.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
19. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
21. A resident of Nevada.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
25. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
27. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
31. Any taillike structure.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. Weapons considered collectively.
38. Being one more than one hundred.
39. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
45. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
47. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
49. South African shrub having flat acuminate leaves and yellow flowers.
52. Avatar of Vishnu.
56. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
57. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
59. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
60. A humorous anecdote or remark.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
64. An organization of military land forces.
65. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
66. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
5. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
6. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
7. A quick look.
8. Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.
9. An uproarious party.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
12. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
20. A genus of Ploceidae.
22. Immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
29. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
30. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
32. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
33. A bachelor's degree in science.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. 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).
38. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
41. Philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. (used informally) Very small.
47. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
48. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
50. A European river.
51. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
53. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
54. A master's degree in library science.
55. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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