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1. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
4. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
10. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
13. Seed of a pea plant.
14. An electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. A long brightly colored shawl.
18. A young woman making her debut into society.
19. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
21. The capital and largest city of Dominica.
23. Before noon.
24. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
25. Common Indian weaverbird.
29. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
33. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
34. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
35. A city in northern India.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
39. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
40. A salt of any halogen acid.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
48. A superior grade of black tea.
51. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
53. The act of escaping physically.
57. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
60. An informal term for a father.
61. Water frozen in the solid state.
62. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
65. A common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete.
66. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
67. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Perceive sound.
3. The mother of Jesus.
4. State in northeastern India.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
7. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
8. A sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety.
9. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
10. Give over.
11. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
12. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
20. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
26. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
27. Not only so, but.
28. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
30. Look at with amorous intentions.
31. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
32. Most important element.
37. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A person forced to flee from home or country.
43. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
44. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
46. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
52. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
56. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
58. A unit of pain intensity.
59. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
60. Not out.
63. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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