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1. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
9. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
13. Type and only genus of the family Esocidae.
14. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
15. Small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains.
16. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
18. United States chemist (born in Norway) noted for his work in thermodynamics (1903-1976).
20. Jordan's port.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Mohammed during his life at Mecca and Medina.
24. French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524).
26. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
28. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
31. 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.
35. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
37. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
38. Of or relating to the Sikhs or Sikhism.
39. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
42. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
44. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
56. A city in north central Morocco.
59. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
60. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
61. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
63. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
64. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
65. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
66. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
3. The present time or age.
4. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
5. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
6. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
7. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
8. A decree that prohibits something.
9. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
11. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
12. Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment.
17. Of or relating to or containing barium.
19. Short and fat.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
27. Inquire about.
29. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
30. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
34. The residue that remains when something is burned.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
40. An informal term for a father.
41. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
46. Follower of Rastafarianism.
47. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.
48. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
52. (informal) Exceptionally good.
53. The content of cognition.
54. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
55. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
57. A light touch or stroke.
58. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
62. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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