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1. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
4. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
10. Used of a single unit or thing.
13. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
14. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
15. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
16. A genus of Indriidae.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
23. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
26. God of love and erotic desire.
27. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
30. Type genus of the Bramidae.
31. That is to say.
34. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
36. A polite name for any woman.
38. A group of countries in special alliance.
39. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
42. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
44. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
47. A large fleet.
50. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
58. A three-tone Chadic language.
59. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
60. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
61. Any competition.
62. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
65. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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1. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
2. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
3. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
4. The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river.
5. A state in midwestern United States.
6. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
7. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
8. Jordan's port.
9. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
12. At or constituting a border or edge.
17. (formal) By means of this.
22. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
24. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
25. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
28. By bad luck.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. A bachelor's degree in library science.
32. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
35. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
38. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
40. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
41. The cry made by sheep.
43. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
45. Building material used as siding or roofing.
46. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
47. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
48. A sudden short attack.
49. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
51. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
52. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
53. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
56. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
57. The month following February and preceding April.
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