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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell.
10. A light touch or stroke.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
19. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
21. Informal terms for a mother.
22. God of love and erotic desire.
23. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
36. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
37. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
38. Unknown god.
39. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
40. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
41. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. A motley assortment of things.
49. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
52. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
55. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
56. A city in northwestern Syria.
59. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
60. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
61. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
63. (informal) Roused to anger.
64. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
65. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
4. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
5. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
6. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
7. United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859).
8. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
9. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
10. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
11. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. Jordan's port.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. A worker who fastens things by tacking them down.
25. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
27. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
30. In bed.
31. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
33. Little known Kamarupan languages.
34. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
35. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
42. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
44. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
45. Of or relating to or involving an area.
47. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
48. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
49. Before noon.
50. Being one more than seven.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. An informal term for a father.
57. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
58. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
62. A state in northwestern North America.
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