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1. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
4. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
10. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
13. Gone by.
14. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
15. A boy or man.
16. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
18. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
20. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. A man who serves as a sailor.
24. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
25. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
26. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
28. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
29. An unforeseen obstacle.
32. Serving as or forming a base.
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
38. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
40. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
42. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
43. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
47. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
49. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
51. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
53. The last (12th) month of the year.
54. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
57. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
60. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
61. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
62. Any plant of the genus Erica.
65. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
66. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
67. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
68. A quantity of no importance.
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1. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. Notable English cricketer (1882-1963).
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
6. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
7. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
8. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
9. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
10. A priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. Chief port of Yemen.
17. Lower in esteem.
19. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
21. Used of a single unit or thing.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. The cry made by sheep.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. An association of criminals.
33. Wearing footgear.
34. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
35. A telegram sent abroad.
36. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
39. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
40. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
41. The grasses.
42. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
44. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
46. A genus of Accipitridae.
48. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
49. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
50. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
51. A primeval personification of air and breath.
55. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
56. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
58. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
59. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
63. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
64. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
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