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1. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
9. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
13. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
15. Not final or absolute.
16. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
17. The square of a body of any size of type.
18. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.
20. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
23. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
26. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
27. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
30. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
31. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
34. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
35. A French abbot.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
38. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
41. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
46. A decree that prohibits something.
48. A picturesque mountainous province of western Austria.
53. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
59. A human female who does housework.
60. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
61. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
62. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
63. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
64. (Roman mythology) God of love.
65. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
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1. Little known Kamarupan languages.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
4. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
5. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
6. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. Fallow deer.
9. The first beta blocker (trade name Inderal) used in treating hypertension and angina pectoris and essential tremor.
10. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
11. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
12. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
19. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
21. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
22. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
24. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. English monk and scholar (672-735).
29. A milkshake made with malt powder.
32. A European river.
33. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
39. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
40. The dignity or rank or position of a duke.
41. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
42. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
44. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
50. Having been read.
51. Noisy talk.
52. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
54. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
55. The sixth month of the civil year.
57. The cry made by sheep.
58. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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