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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
10. The cry made by sheep.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638).
15. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
18. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
19. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
21. An anticholinergic drug (trade name Daricon) used in treating peptic ulcers.
22. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
24. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
25. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
28. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
31. A large fleet.
33. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
37. A tight-fitting headdress.
38. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
43. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
52. State of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior.
54. A doctor's degree in religion.
55. A bachelor's degree in science.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
61. 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.
63. Used of a single unit or thing.
64. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
66. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
67. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
68. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. Something causes misery or death.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. Broken into sharp pieces.
5. A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
6. (Babylonian) The sky god.
7. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
8. A cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin).
9. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
10. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
11. Find repugnant.
12. A compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals.
20. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
27. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
29. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
30. The face of a timepiece.
32. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
34. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
40. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
42. A word that can be used to refer to a person or place or thing.
46. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
47. Bordered by a line of things.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
53. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
56. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. A light touch or stroke.
60. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
62. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
65. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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