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1. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
4. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
10. How long something has existed.
13. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
14. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
15. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
16. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
18. A human female who does housework.
20. The capital of the state of Kansas.
22. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
29. (informal) Of the highest quality.
32. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
35. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
37. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
38. That is to say.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
44. A person to whom money is paid.
49. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
52. A Spanish female Gypsy.
54. Of or involving the ovaries.
57. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
58. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
59. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
62. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
63. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
64. A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission.
65. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. A milkshake made with malt powder.
2. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
3. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
4. A radioactive transuranic element.
5. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
6. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
7. Jordan's port.
8. National capital of Kiribati.
9. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
10. Squash bugs.
11. Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927).
12. A very light brown.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
21. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
23. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
27. Engage or hire for work.
28. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
30. 10 grams.
31. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
33. Resist or confront with resistance.
34. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
46. A choice or delicious dish.
47. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
48. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
50. Rounded like an egg.
51. Informal terms for a mother.
53. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
60. Informal terms for a mother.
61. In operation or operational.
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