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1. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
4. An ancient Greek city famous for military prowess.
10. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
13. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
14. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
15. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
16. Goddess of fortune.
18. (trade mark) A soft form of cereal for infants.
20. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
21. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
23. English monk and scholar (672-735).
24. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
25. A state in east central United States.
26. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
29. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
30. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
40. The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos.
42. Violent and needless disturbance.
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
53. Common Indian weaverbird.
56. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
57. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
61. The bill in a restaurant.
62. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
63. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
64. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Muslim name for God.
2. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
3. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
4. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
5. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.
6. Type genus of the Amiidae.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. The sound made by a gentle blow.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Having a sole or soles especially as specified.
11. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
12. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
17. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
19. A vigorous blow.
22. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
31. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
35. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
36. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
37. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A genus of Ploceidae.
48. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. Rounded like an egg.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. Noisy talk.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
60. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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