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1. A licensed medical practitioner.
4. Jordan's port.
9. Being five more than one hundred sixty.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
14. (botany) Especially of leaves.
15. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
16. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
17. Of or like a feeble old woman.
18. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
23. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
25. A Hindu prince or king in India.
27. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. 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.
36. Metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep.
37. A master's degree in business.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. A town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
48. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
51. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
55. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
56. Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy.
59. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
60. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
61. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
62. A notable achievement.
63. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
64. Spherical gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. A brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
6. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
7. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
8. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
9. Largest crested screamer.
10. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
11. Being two more than forty.
12. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. Slightly open.
24. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
30. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
31. A major god.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
39. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
40. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
43. An informal term for a father.
45. A woman of refinement.
46. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
47. Type genus of the Gavidae.
49. Type genus of the Anatidae.
50. Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804).
52. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
53. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. A quantity of no importance.
57. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
58. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
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