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1. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
5. A clan identified by their kinship to a common totemic object.
10. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
13. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
14. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
15. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
16. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
17. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
18. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
19. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
21. A mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture).
22. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
24. (informal) Roused to anger.
25. Snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
28. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
31. A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment.
32. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
37. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
44. An informal term for a father.
46. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
47. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
49. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
51. Sweetened beverage of lime juice and water.
55. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
57. Having few if any teeth.
58. How long something has existed.
59. Tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts.
62. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
63. Not of long duration.
64. Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.
65. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. A bachelor's degree in library science.
2. The short weak cry of a young bird.
3. The act of preventing the opposition from scoring (in sports).
4. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
5. A slight amount or degree of difference.
6. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
7. The capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country.
8. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
9. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
10. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
11. The ending of a series or sequence.
12. Distance travelled per unit time.
20. Short and fat.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
27. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
29. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
30. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
33. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
35. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
36. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
38. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
39. The body of faculty and students of a college.
40. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
42. Concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement.
45. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
48. Bringing death.
50. Again but in a new or different way.
52. The content of cognition.
53. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
54. English essayist (1775-1834).
56. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
60. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
61. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
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