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1. Covered with frost.
5. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
10. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
13. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
16. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
17. A submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. A card game for 2 players.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
35. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
36. Having the slant of a bevel.
39. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
40. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
41. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
44. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
45. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
48. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
53. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
55. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
56. Lower in esteem.
59. Being two more than fifty.
60. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
61. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
62. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
2. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. A cruel and brutal fellow.
5. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
6. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
7. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
8. Free from risk or danger.
9. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
10. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
11. The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).
12. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
18. Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall.
21. In bed.
23. A state in New England.
24. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
27. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
29. Fallow deer.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
33. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
34. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
37. Freight car without permanent sides or roof.
38. A turner with a narrow flexible blade.
39. The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).
42. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
43. A Pacific island north of Australia.
46. Suggestive of the supernatural.
47. Ludicrously odd.
49. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
50. Loose or flaccid body fat.
51. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
52. A European river.
54. 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.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
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