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1. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
13. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
14. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
15. Made of fir or pine.
16. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
17. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
18. The twelfth month of the civil year.
19. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
21. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
31. That is to say.
32. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. God of the earth.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
49. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
55. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
58. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
59. Using the voice in song.
60. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
61. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
62. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
63. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A genus of Mustelidae.
2. An industrial city is southeastern Austria.
3. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
4. Indigo bush.
5. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
6. A small piece of cloth.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
10. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
11. The act of drawing or hauling something.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
20. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. (informal) Of the highest quality.
26. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
29. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
30. An informal term for a father.
33. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
34. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
40. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
41. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
45. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
46. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
47. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
48. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
50. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
51. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
52. Willing to face danger.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. God of love and erotic desire.
56. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
57. To what extent or amount or degree.
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