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1. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
5. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
10. Characteristic of a mob.
13. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
18. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
19. A light touch or stroke.
20. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
21. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
23. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
26. The last (12th) month of the year.
27. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
30. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
31. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
34. A straight line that touches but does not intersect a curve.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
41. A doctor's degree in religion.
42. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
44. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
45. Colloquial British abbreviation.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
52. Atypically small.
58. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
59. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
62. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
63. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
65. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
66. An organization of military land forces.
67. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
3. A branch of the Tai languages.
4. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
5. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
6. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
10. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
11. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
17. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
22. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
24. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
25. A theatrical performer.
28. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
29. Type genus of the Anatidae.
32. An informal term for a father.
33. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
35. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
40. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
43. In an unnatural eery manner.
46. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
47. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
53. Impairment resulting from long use.
54. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
55. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
56. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
57. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
60. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
61. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
64. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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