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1. Considerate and solicitous care.
4. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
10. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
13. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
14. A port city in southwestern Iran.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
18. An expression of greeting.
20. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
24. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
26. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
27. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
29. (Welsh) A warrior god.
30. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. The fatty flesh of eel.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
48. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
51. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
52. A telegram sent abroad.
54. An accidental happening.
58. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
59. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
60. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
62. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
63. How long something has existed.
64. The face or front of a building.
65. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
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1. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
2. Being three more than fifty.
3. United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River.
4. Of or like a cecum.
5. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
6. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
7. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
8. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
9. An associate degree in nursing.
10. Humble request for help.
11. Having little physical or spiritual strength.
12. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
17. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
19. The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something v 1.
21. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
23. A branch of the Tai languages.
25. Water soaked soil.
28. Advanced in years.
31. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
32. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
33. The sign language used in the United States.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
37. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
39. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
40. Lacking motor coordination.
41. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
44. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
45. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
46. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
47. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
49. 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.
50. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
56. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
57. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
61. 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.
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