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1. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
4. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
9. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
14. A particular environment or walk of life.
15. Suggestive of the supernatural.
16. Fiddler crabs.
17. Greek mythology.
18. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
19. The capital of the Bahamas.
22. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
23. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
25. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
26. The capital of Turkey.
29. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
34. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
35. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
41. A state in north central United States.
42. In bed.
44. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
46. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
48. The act of killing yourself.
52. 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.
55. Relating to or near the ulna.
56. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
59. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
60. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
61. In a foreign country.
63. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
64. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. A group of southern Bantu languages.
2. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
3. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
4. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
5. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
6. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
7. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
8. The cry made by sheep.
9. Go ashore.
10. An executioner who beheads the condemned person.
11. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
12. English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606).
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
24. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
27. Any competition.
28. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
32. Informal terms for a mother.
33. Sleep in a convenient place.
36. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
43. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
45. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
47. English monk and scholar (672-735).
48. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
49. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
50. In or of the present month.
51. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
52. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
53. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
54. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
57. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
58. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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