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1. Pulled or drawn tight.
5. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
10. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
13. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
14. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
15. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
17. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
18. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
19. Type genus of the Anatidae.
22. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
28. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
29. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
30. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
33. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
37. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. Extreme mental retardation.
42. Represent in bodily form.
44. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
45. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. African mahogany trees.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya.
59. An associate degree in applied science.
60. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
61. United States religious and writer (1915-1968).
62. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
63. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
64. Small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions.
65. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. Chief port of Yemen.
3. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
4. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
5. A form of address for a man.
6. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
7. Capable of being added or added to.
8. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
9. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
10. An informal term for a father.
11. Jordan's port.
12. Wood of a sumac.
20. Lacking motor coordination.
21. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
23. A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
24. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
27. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
31. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
32. A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.
34. American novelist (1909-1955).
35. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
36. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
38. A city and port in northern Jutland.
40. A region in central Italy.
41. Jordan's port.
43. The cry made by sheep.
47. Not easy.
48. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
49. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
51. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
52. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
53. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
54. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
57. An affirmative.
58. An electrically charged particle.
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