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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
10. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
18. English essayist (1775-1834).
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Jordan's port.
29. A city in east central Texas.
35. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
36. A contorted facial expression.
38. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
42. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
43. Common Indian weaverbird.
44. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
54. Strike sharply.
56. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
57. An accidental happening.
59. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
61. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
62. Informal terms for money.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. How long something has existed.
66. Large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics.
67. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
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1. Altered from an originally straight condition.
2. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
3. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
7. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
8. A town in north central Oklahoma.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
11. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A unit of power equal to 1000 watts.
25. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
27. God of love and erotic desire.
28. Distant in either space or time.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
32. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
33. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
34. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
37. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
39. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
40. Any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon.
41. (biochemistry) Purine base found in DNA and RNA.
42. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
45. Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window.
49. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
50. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
52. 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.
53. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
55. A beautiful and graceful girl.
58. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
60. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
63. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
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