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1. Many times at short intervals.
4. Blood-sucking African fly.
10. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
13. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
14. An ancient town on a promontory in western Greece.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
17. (music) Brought to correct pitch.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
22. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
25. Noisy talk.
27. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
29. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
36. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
37. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
39. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
40. An enclosed space.
41. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
44. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
46. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
48. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
49. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
51. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
55. In a foreign country.
58. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
59. A genus of Laridae.
61. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
62. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
63. The basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe.
64. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
3. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
4. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
5. Create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material.
6. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
7. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
8. The froth produced by soaps or detergents.
9. The square of a body of any size of type.
10. Heal or recover.
11. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
23. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
24. Any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
30. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
32. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
35. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
38. A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement.
42. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
43. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
45. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
47. (combining form) Indicating radiation or radioactivity.
48. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. Very dark black.
52. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
53. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
54. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
56. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
57. The cry made by sheep.
60. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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