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1. 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).
5. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
10. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
13. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
14. Lower in esteem.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
17. Greek mythology.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
21. Regional and archaic.
23. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. Made from goats' milk.
39. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
40. A state in midwestern United States.
41. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
48. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
49. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
53. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
59. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
60. A port city in southwestern Iran.
62. A loud harsh or strident noise.
63. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
64. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
65. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
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1. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
3. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
4. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
5. The highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
8. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
9. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
10. A small cake leavened with yeast.
11. The sixth month of the civil year.
12. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
28. (Welsh) A warrior god.
29. A vote that blocks a decision.
30. Extremely robust.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
33. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
35. An island of central Hawaii.
37. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
38. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
39. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
42. Before noon.
44. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
45. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
46. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
50. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
51. A master's degree in religion.
52. Something causes misery or death.
54. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
56. A flexible container with a single opening.
57. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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