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1. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. A deep bow.
10. An audiotape recording of sound.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. A genus of Caltha.
15. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
16. Loose or flaccid body fat.
18. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
19. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
21. All the plant life in a particular region.
23. Unrestrained by convention or propriety.
24. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
31. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
35. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
39. Not in good physical or mental health.
40. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
42. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
45. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
46. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
47. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
48. A bachelor's degree in religion.
49. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
58. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
63. A bachelor's degree in theology.
64. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
65. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
66. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
67. A port city in southwestern Iran.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (British slang) Cafe.
2. (Christianity) The abode of Satan and the forces of evil.
3. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
4. A white trivalent metallic element.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
10. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
11. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
12. At a specific prior time.
17. (informal) Exceptionally good.
20. A quantity of no importance.
22. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
25. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
26. A Mid-Atlantic state.
29. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
30. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
32. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
33. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
43. Relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants.
44. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
55. Divulge information or secrets.
56. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
57. Offering fun and gaiety.
59. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
60. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
61. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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