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1. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
4. (in India and Burma) A member of an armed gang of robbers.
10. An honorary degree in science.
13. The month following March and preceding May.
14. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
15. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. Be unbearably loud.
18. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
19. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
21. Type genus of the Gavidae.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. One who works hard at boring tasks.
39. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. An expression of greeting.
45. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. A motley assortment of things.
53. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
58. The twelfth month of the civil year.
59. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
61. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
62. God of fire.
63. God of death.
64. A primeval personification of air and breath.
65. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
67. Avatar of Vishnu.
68. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
4. An informal term for a father.
5. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
6. African mahogany trees.
7. An awkward stupid person.
8. A strong emotion.
9. Japanese architect (born in 1913).
10. Speaking a Slavic language.
11. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
12. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
20. Offering little or no hope.
22. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
25. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
26. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
28. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
31. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
32. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
33. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
35. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
36. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
40. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
43. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
46. A group of southern Bantu languages.
47. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
48. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
50. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
51. The eleventh month of the civil year.
52. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
54. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. Fallow deer.
56. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
57. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
60. The month following February and preceding April.
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