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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
5. Employed in accomplishing something.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
14. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
15. Offering fun and gaiety.
16. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A genus of Stromateidae.
21. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
23. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
24. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus.
25. The cry made by sheep.
27. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. Irish abbess.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
40. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
42. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
43. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. Jordan's port.
54. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
57. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
59. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
60. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
64. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
65. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
66. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
2. A major god.
3. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
4. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
5. Fiddler crabs.
6. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
7. The square of a body of any size of type.
8. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
9. How long something has existed.
10. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
11. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
12. Follower of Rastafarianism.
18. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
20. The muscular back part of the shank.
22. A city in northwestern Turkey.
26. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
28. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
30. Not widely known.
31. A Mid-Atlantic state.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
36. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
37. A resource.
39. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
41. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
44. (trade mark) A soft form of cereal for infants.
45. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
47. Jordan's port.
48. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
49. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
51. One of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy.
52. An elaborate song for solo voice.
53. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
55. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
56. A Loloish language.
58. 10 grams.
59. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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