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1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. Wild ox.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. The basic unit of money in Romania.
14. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
15. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
16. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
17. Understood in a certain way.
18. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
19. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
24. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
35. A Loloish language.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
39. The capital and largest city of Japan.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. Filled with a great quantity.
50. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
54. Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality.
55. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
56. A person who possesses great material wealth.
59. South African term for `boss'.
60. The quantity a cask will hold.
61. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
62. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
63. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
64. A member of the British order of honor.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
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1. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
2. A beautiful and graceful girl.
3. Rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel.
4. Bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins.
5. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
6. A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter).
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. Common Indian weaverbird.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
20. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. A Finnish steam bath.
28. Toward the mouth or oral region.
29. A doctor's degree in education.
30. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
31. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
41. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
42. Considerate and solicitous care.
43. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
44. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
47. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
48. Order by virtue of superior authority.
51. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
52. Imprudently incurring risk.
53. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
57. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
58. Take in solid food.
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