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1. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
4. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
10. The seventh and last day of the week.
13. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
14. A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles.
15. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
16. Jordan's port.
18. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
19. The month following July and preceding September.
20. God of love and erotic desire.
22. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
24. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
25. A state in midwestern United States.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
30. Any plant of the genus Erica.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Coffee trees.
45. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
50. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
53. In a manner differing from the usual or expected.
55. Usually large hard-shelled seed.
56. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
60. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
61. The longest division of geological time.
62. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
64. A master's degree in business.
65. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
66. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
67. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
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1. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
2. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
3. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
4. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
5. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
6. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
9. (South African) An ear of corn.
10. A fraudulent business scheme.
11. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
12. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. How long something has existed.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
32. A byproduct of inflammation.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
36. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
39. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
40. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
44. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
46. A lepton of very great mass.
47. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
48. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
49. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
51. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
57. An informal term for a father.
58. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
60. That is to say.
63. Informal terms for a mother.
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