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1. A decree that prohibits something.
4. The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time.
10. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
13. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
14. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
18. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
19. Of an instrument of certain death.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. The highest level or degree attainable.
31. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
35. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
37. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
38. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. How long something has existed.
42. A kind of person.
43. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
45. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
58. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
60. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
63. A port city in southwestern Iran.
65. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
66. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
67. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
3. Clean or orderly.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
6. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
7. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
8. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
9. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
10. The closing section of a musical composition.
11. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
12. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
20. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
27. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
28. Type genus of the Majidae.
29. A light touch or stroke.
30. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
32. Type genus of the Amiidae.
33. A quantity sufficient to satisfy.
34. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
36. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
41. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. God of death.
46. (informal) Exceptionally good.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. A genus of Ploceidae.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
52. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
55. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
56. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
57. A quantity of no importance.
59. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
61. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
64. A public promotion of some product or service.
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