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1. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
10. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
13. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
14. Someone who helps to gather the harvest.
15. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Excessively fat.
19. Someone who rows a boat.
21. An indication of approved or superior status.
23. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
24. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
25. (nontechnical usage) A tiny piece of anything.
28. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
32. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
37. The basic unit of money in Albania.
38. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
40. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
41. A bachelor's degree in science.
42. A fraudulent business scheme.
44. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
51. Attribute to a source or cause.
54. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
58. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
59. A Hindu prince or king in India.
62. An associate degree in applied science.
63. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
64. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
66. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
67. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
68. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
69. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
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1. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
7. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
8. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
9. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
10. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
11. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
12. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
18. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
20. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
29. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
30. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
31. An informal term for a father.
33. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
34. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
39. The first beta blocker (trade name Inderal) used in treating hypertension and angina pectoris and essential tremor.
40. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
41. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
43. God of death.
47. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. An informal term for a father.
52. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
53. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
55. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
56. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
57. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
60. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
61. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
65. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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