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1. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
4. Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
14. At risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant.
15. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
16. A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second.
18. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
19. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
20. Highly excited.
24. A negative.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. By bad luck.
37. A man who is a stupid fool.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
44. A master's degree in business.
47. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
49. A language of Australian aborigines.
53. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. Either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush.
60. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
61. The act of catching an object with the hands.
62. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
64. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
65. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
66. Of or in or relating to the nose.
67. The last (12th) month of the year.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
3. The dull explosive noise made by an engine.
4. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
5. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
6. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. Being nine more than forty.
9. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
10. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. Distant in either space or time.
17. Scorpion shells of shallow tropical waters of the eastern hemisphere.
21. A castrated tomcat.
22. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
26. Possessing material wealth.
28. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. An informal term for a father.
34. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. Having been made empty.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
45. Paper with a crinkled texture.
46. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
48. The airforce of Great Britain.
50. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
51. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
52. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
53. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
54. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
55. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
58. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
59. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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