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1. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
4. A port city in southwestern Iran.
10. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
13. Adult female chicken.
14. The basic unit of money in Macao.
15. Free from liquid or moisture.
16. An insect or other arthropod between molts.
18. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
20. Type genus of the Zoarcidae.
21. The content of cognition.
22. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
25. Leather with a napped surface.
27. One of two official languages of Norway.
31. The square of a body of any size of type.
34. 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.
35. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
38. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
39. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
43. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
46. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
48. 1 species.
52. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
53. An iconic mental representation.
56. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
58. Belief in a kind of sorcery that originated in Africa and is practiced in the West Indies.
60. A human limb.
61. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
62. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
63. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
2. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
3. Lacking in security or safety.
4. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
5. Having the head uncovered.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. A light touch or stroke.
8. A word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name.
9. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. Soft creamy white cheese.
12. Tropical Asian starlings.
17. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
19. A piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
24. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
26. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
28. Any competition.
29. A fraudulent business scheme.
30. God of love and erotic desire.
32. In bed.
33. The cry made by sheep.
36. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
37. Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next).
38. Having the head uncovered.
40. Hurt or upset.
41. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
42. Material used to daub walls.
44. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
45. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
47. A French abbot.
49. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
50. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
51. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
54. A master's degree in business.
55. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
59. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
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