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1. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
5. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
10. A person's brother or sister.
13. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
14. Lower in esteem.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
17. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. 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.
21. (zoology) Of or related to or resembling a snake.
23. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
25. Flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point.
26. Outer space as viewed from the earth.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
31. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
39. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
47. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
58. A small lump or protuberance.
62. The cry made by sheep.
63. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
64. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
65. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
66. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
67. United States politician who arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872).
68. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
4. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
5. Covered with paving material.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
8. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
9. (Irish) God of love and beauty.
10. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
11. Complacently or inanely foolish.
12. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
27. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
28. Noisy talk.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. God of the earth.
37. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
38. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
46. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
48. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
49. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
50. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
51. Not out.
52. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
53. The men who man a ship or aircraft.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. In bed.
56. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
57. Material used to daub walls.
59. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
60. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
61. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
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