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1. The cry made by sheep.
4. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
10. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
13. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
14. Cause to become detached or separated.
15. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
17. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
21. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
23. The square of a body of any size of type.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Jordan's port.
33. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
37. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
39. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
40. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
41. A decree that prohibits something.
43. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
45. Fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
52. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures.
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
59. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
61. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
62. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
63. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
64. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
65. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
3. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
4. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
5. A student who studies excessively.
6. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
7. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
8. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
9. African mahogany trees.
10. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
11. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
12. (of soil) Soft and watery.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
24. God of death.
25. 16 ounces.
28. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
29. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
30. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
31. Being three more than fifty.
32. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
34. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
35. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
36. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
38. Presence of excess lipids in the blood.
39. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
42. Of or belonging to an aecium.
44. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
46. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
47. Squash bugs.
48. Type genus of the Percidae.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. The capital of Western Samoa.
53. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
54. A French abbot.
56. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
58. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
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