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1. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
4. A person who buys.
10. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
15. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
16. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
17. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
18. Step on it.
19. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
31. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
34. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
37. Temporary living quarters.
40. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
42. The airforce of Great Britain.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
46. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
50. An informal term for a father.
54. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
59. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
60. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
61. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
63. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
64. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
65. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.
66. The bill in a restaurant.
67. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
5. A woman of refinement.
6. Indicating the most important performer or role.
7. Vietnamese New Year.
8. A European river.
9. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
10. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
11. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
12. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
20. A compact mass.
23. Informal terms for a mother.
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
27. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A quantity of no importance.
32. A small drink.
33. Divulge information or secrets.
35. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
39. A radioactive transuranic element.
43. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
47. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
51. Lie adjacent to another.
52. Fallow deer.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
56. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
57. A unit of pressure.
58. The cry made by sheep.
62. An expression of greeting.
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