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1. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
5. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
10. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
13. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
14. Lean end of the neck.
15. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
16. An implement used to erase something.
18. The face or front of a building.
20. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. Covered with paving material.
27. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. Robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers.
34. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
35. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
37. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
41. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
42. Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815).
44. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
46. A quantity of no importance.
47. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
48. A genus of Indriidae.
50. Half the width of an em.
51. Imprudently incurring risk.
55. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
56. A lack of vitality.
59. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
60. A port city in southwestern Iran.
63. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
64. The month following February and preceding April.
65. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
66. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
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1. Advanced in years.
2. The basic unit of money on Malta.
3. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
4. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
5. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
6. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
7. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. A major god.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
25. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
26. A branch of the Tai languages.
28. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
32. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
33. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
36. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
38. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
39. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
40. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Someone who sets snares for birds or small animals.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. Capital of Vanuatu.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
54. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
57. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
58. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. A public promotion of some product or service.
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