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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. Having branches.
10. A decree that prohibits something.
13. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
14. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
17. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
19. By bad luck.
21. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
23. Being one more than one hundred.
25. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
27. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
30. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
34. A motley assortment of things.
36. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
38. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
39. A periodic paperback publication.
41. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
42. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
43. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
45. Unable to meet financial obligations.
46. 1/1000 gram.
48. An associate degree in nursing.
49. Either extremity of something that has length.
50. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
59. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
60. An informal term for a father.
62. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
63. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
64. Exultantly proud and joyful.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
67. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
68. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
69. (informal) Roused to anger.
70. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
4. The airforce of Great Britain.
5. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
6. 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.
7. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
8. A slight amount or degree of difference.
9. (combining form) Former.
10. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
11. Causing a dull and steady pain.
12. A quantity of no importance.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
26. A bottle with a stopper.
28. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
29. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
31. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
32. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
33. One-hundredth of a right angle.
35. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
37. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
40. Of or relating to the gonads.
42. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
44. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
47. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
48. Informal terms for a mother.
51. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
52. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
61. A young woman making her debut into society.
65. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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