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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
10. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
13. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
14. A port city in southwestern Iran.
15. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
16. Make children.
18. English monk and scholar (672-735).
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
22. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
24. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
26. Lower in esteem.
27. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
29. The act of scanning.
32. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
37. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
39. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
42. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
43. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
44. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
49. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
51. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
52. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. 1 species.
58. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
59. A woman of refinement.
62. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
63. A light touch or stroke.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
65. A book of the New Testament.
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1. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
2. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
3. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
7. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
8. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
9. Squash bugs.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
11. Horned vipers.
12. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
17. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
21. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
23. Dwell (archaic).
25. Being ten more than one hundred.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
34. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
35. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
36. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. Of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
50. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
53. Having the slant of a bevel.
54. Type genus of the Anatidae.
56. A flexible container with a single opening.
57. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. Before noon.
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