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1. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
4. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
10. A federally chartered savings bank.
13. The capital and largest city of Japan.
14. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
15. Fiddler crabs.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
18. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
19. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
21. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
23. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
24. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
26. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
33. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
36. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
37. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
38. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
41. Provide with clothes or put clothes on.
43. Summer cypress.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
48. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
49. A state in New England.
50. A rational motive for a belief or action.
56. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
58. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
59. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
60. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
63. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
64. A United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. Liveliness and energy.
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1. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
2. Being in a tense state.
3. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
4. Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659).
5. Register formally.
6. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
7. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
8. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
9. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
10. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
22. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. A book of the New Testament.
31. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
32. A Hindu theistic philosophy.
34. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
42. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
44. Wearing footgear.
46. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
47. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. Gather, as of as crops.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. Strike sharply.
57. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
61. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
62. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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