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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
10. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
13. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
14. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
17. A member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas.
19. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
21. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
22. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
23. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
26. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. Jordan's port.
33. The area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate.
36. 10 grams.
37. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
43. A state in the western United States.
44. The sixth month of the civil year.
45. A large and stately mansion.
47. Left-hand page.
51. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. An Asian temple.
60. (British) Your grandmother.
61. Being one more than two.
62. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
63. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
64. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
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1. A bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
4. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
5. Of inferior or mixed breed.
6. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
7. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
8. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
9. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
10. Toward the mouth or oral region.
11. God of love and erotic desire.
12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
20. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
24. Robbery at gunpoint.
25. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
27. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
28. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
30. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
34. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
35. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
39. Perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area.
40. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
42. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
46. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
48. Armor plate that protects the chest.
49. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
50. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
53. An informal term for a father.
54. Type genus of the Anatidae.
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
59. A young woman making her debut into society.
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