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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. A former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere).
10. The sign language used in the United States.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. Favoring one person or side over another.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A resource.
17. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
18. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
19. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
21. Kenyan statesman and the first president of independent Kenya (1893-1978).
23. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
25. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity.
37. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
39. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
40. By bad luck.
42. A motley assortment of things.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
52. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
56. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
57. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
59. A Spanish river.
60. The residue that remains when something is burned.
61. Muscular and heavily built.
62. American novelist (1909-1955).
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1. (informal) Very tired.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. The vein in the center of a leaf.
6. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
7. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
8. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
9. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
10. A city in northern India.
11. Singing jazz.
12. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
20. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
22. Not only so, but.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
29. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
30. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
31. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
32. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
34. A state in north central United States.
35. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
36. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
38. English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932).
39. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
45. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints).
46. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
48. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
49. A vigorous blow.
51. 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.
53. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
54. The airforce of Great Britain.
55. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
58. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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