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1. Type genus of the Nepidae.
5. A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum.
10. A metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters.
13. A person who makes use of a thing.
14. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
15. An associate degree in applied science.
16. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
17. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
18. Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924).
20. Produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f'. `s', `z', or `th' (in both `thin' and `then')).
22. Type genus of the Danaidae.
23. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
24. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
25. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
26. The sport of gliding on skates.
28. A young woman making her debut into society.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
34. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
37. Before noon.
41. 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. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
44. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
46. In a foreign country.
49. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
53. Noisy and mischievous merrymaking.
55. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
56. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
57. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
60. A small cake leavened with yeast.
61. An advanced law degree.
64. (British) Your grandmother.
65. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
66. An unwholesome atmosphere.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
2. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
3. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
4. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
5. The award given to the champion.
6. Disparaging terms for the common people.
7. (Sumerian) Sun god.
8. A Mid-Atlantic state.
9. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A member of a Turkic people of NE Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin).
12. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
19. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
21. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
27. God of love and erotic desire.
29. The cry made by sheep.
32. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
33. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
35. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
39. Genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips.
40. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
43. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
45. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
47. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
48. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
50. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
54. Not in action or at work.
58. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
59. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
60. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
62. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
63. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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