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1. A master's degree in business.
4. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
9. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
13. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
14. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
15. Extremely robust.
16. (British) Your grandmother.
17. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
18. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
19. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
21. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
29. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
37. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
40. 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.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
45. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
47. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. A genus of Lamnidae.
57. A small cake leavened with yeast.
59. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
61. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
64. The force of workers available.
65. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
66. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
67. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. The template for protein synthesis.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
4. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
5. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
6. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
7. A port city in southwestern Iran.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
10. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
11. A light-weight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun.
12. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. The shape of a bell.
27. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
30. Made of fir or pine.
31. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
32. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
34. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
35. Using speech rather than writing.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. Wood of a pecan tree.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. The 4th planet from the sun.
50. A French abbot.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
54. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
55. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
56. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
58. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
60. A flexible container with a single opening.
62. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
63. A bachelor's degree in religion.
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