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1. (Babylonian) The sky god.
4. Someone who walks at a leisurely pace.
10. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. A coterie of undesirable people.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. The sign language used in the United States.
17. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
19. The second month of the Hindu calendar.
22. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
24. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
28. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925).
32. Jordan's port.
34. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
35. A partially opened flower.
36. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
41. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
46. A telegram sent abroad.
50. A genus of Mustelidae.
51. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
52. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
53. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
55. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
58. Any of various units of capacity.
59. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
60. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
62. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
64. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
65. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
3. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
4. A city in northern India.
5. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
6. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
7. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
10. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
11. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
12. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
18. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
23. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
25. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
26. A boy or man.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
30. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
31. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
38. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
42. Garlic mayonnaise.
43. Take in a sail with a brail.
44. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
45. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.
47. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
48. A tort consisting of false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person.
49. Enthusiastic approval.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. A local computer network for communication between computers.
57. A master's degree in business.
61. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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