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1. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
5. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
10. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
13. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
14. A bureaucrat who levies taxes.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
18. Avatar of Vishnu.
19. The second day of the week.
20. An associate degree in applied science.
21. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
23. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. An informal term for a father.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
33. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. Of or relating to or involving an area.
40. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
42. A light touch or stroke.
43. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
52. American novelist (1909-1955).
55. A Russian river.
56. Refuse to acknowledge.
59. A small cake leavened with yeast.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. Someone whose business is advertising.
63. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
66. Black tropical American cuckoo.
67. Estrangement from god.
68. (of eggs) No longer edible.
69. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
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1. A quantity of no importance.
2. An elaborate song for solo voice.
3. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
4. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
5. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
6. 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.
7. A salt or ester of oxalic acid.
8. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
9. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
10. Trees of chiefly South America.
11. Using the voice.
12. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
17. A New England state.
22. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
24. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
25. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
27. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. A releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body.
31. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
34. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
36. The cry made by sheep.
37. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
39. Perversely irritable.
41. Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering.
45. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
47. An unofficial association of people or groups.
49. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
51. Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome.
53. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
54. Very dark black.
57. Type genus of the Ranidae.
58. A town in north central Oklahoma.
61. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
64. An informal term for a father.
65. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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