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1. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
4. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
10. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
13. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
14. A place of worship that has its own altar.
15. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
18. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
19. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
20. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
23. Lower in esteem.
26. An associate degree in nursing.
27. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
30. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
32. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
38. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
39. One of the three Furies.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
45. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
49. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
57. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
60. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
61. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
62. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
64. Bound or secured closely.
65. An informal term for a father.
66. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
2. Belonging to some prior time.
3. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
4. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
5. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
6. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
7. With rapid movements.
8. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
9. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
10. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
11. Largest crested screamer.
12. A person of exceptional importance and reputation.
17. Jordan's port.
21. A decree that prohibits something.
22. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
24. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
28. Tropical Asian starlings.
29. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
31. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
34. Before noon.
36. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
37. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
40. Genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico.
41. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
42. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
49. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
50. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
51. In bed.
52. By bad luck.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
56. An informal term for a father.
58. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
63. Not out.
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