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1. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
5. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
9. English essayist (1775-1834).
13. A primeval personification of air and breath.
14. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
15. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
16. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
19. Register formally.
20. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
21. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
24. How long something has existed.
27. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
34. United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966).
36. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
37. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
39. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
40. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
44. A decree that prohibits something.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Obvious and dull.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
58. Noisy talk.
60. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
61. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
63. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
64. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
65. Having branches.
66. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
67. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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1. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
2. A sign of something about to happen.
3. A blind god.
4. A negatively charged atom.
5. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance.
8. A public promotion of some product or service.
9. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
10. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
11. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
12. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
17. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
18. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
22. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
23. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
25. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
26. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
28. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes.
30. Again but in a new or different way.
32. Jordan's port.
33. A primeval personification of air and breath.
35. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
38. A town in northern Egypt.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
46. Being nine more than forty.
48. A city in northern India.
49. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
50. In operation or operational.
51. (prefix) Outside or outer.
52. A Loloish language.
55. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
56. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
57. An audiotape recording of sound.
59. Of southern Europe.
62. A state in New England.
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