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1. A young woman making her debut into society.
4. A hard blow with a flat object.
10. A three-year law degree.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. The capital and largest city of Poland.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
18. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
20. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
21. A genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. (Sumerian) Evil storm god represented as a black bird.
27. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
29. An honorary arts degree.
33. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. A trivial lie.
37. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
40. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
42. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. A French abbot.
50. The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862).
56. The seventh and last day of the week.
57. (informal) Very good.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
63. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
64. Not reflecting light.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
2. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
3. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
4. Affectedly dainty or refined.
5. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
6. Intense anger (usually on an epic scale).
7. Inquire about.
8. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
9. A festival featuring African-American culture.
10. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
11. A narrow way or road.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
17. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
22. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
24. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
30. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
31. A fraudulent business scheme.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. Informal terms for a mother.
38. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.
39. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
41. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. God of wealth and love.
48. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
49. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
54. Very dark black.
55. A quantity of no importance.
58. The sign language used in the United States.
59. An accountant certified by the state.
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