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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. The posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical.
10. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
13. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
14. Related on the mother's side.
15. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
16. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
17. A city in northern India.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
22. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
25. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
28. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
31. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
34. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
35. Capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
41. Cheap and shoddy.
43. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. Noisy talk.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. A large wardrobe or cabinet.
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
58. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
59. Wild and domestic cattle.
62. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
63. (informal) Of the highest quality.
64. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
65. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
5. A domain in which something is dominant.
6. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
7. The month following February and preceding April.
8. A resident of Utah.
9. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
10. Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes.
11. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
12. Male red deer.
18. Jordan's port.
20. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
27. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. Toward the mouth or oral region.
30. The mother of Jesus.
32. Being the only one.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
37. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
38. A genus of Paridae.
42. A slender double-reed instrument.
44. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
45. Lower in esteem.
47. Unknown god.
51. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
52. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
53. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.
54. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
56. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
57. The residue that remains when something is burned.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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