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1. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
5. Any taillike structure.
10. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
14. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. A windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand.
18. A vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation.
20. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
21. A country on the island of Jamaica.
22. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
24. Extremely pleasing.
25. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
28. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
29. A shaped mass of baked bread.
33. Being or given to servile imitation.
35. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
37. Any object that is left unused or still extant.
38. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
39. The act of scanning.
40. The content of cognition.
42. The act of using.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. Common Indian weaverbird.
50. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
62. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
63. Raised for its long silky hair which is the true mohair.
64. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
65. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
66. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
67. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
2. Type genus of the Amiidae.
3. The 4th planet from the sun.
4. Type genus of the Phocidae.
5. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
6. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
7. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
8. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
9. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
10. Little known Kamarupan languages.
11. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
17. Affectedly trendy.
19. A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription.
23. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
26. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
30. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
31. Type genus of the Anatidae.
32. (nautical) Situated at or toward the bow of a vessel.
34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A city in northern India.
49. Noisy talk.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. An instinctive motive.
52. (Greek mythology) God of love.
54. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. Advanced in years.
58. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
59. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
60. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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