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1. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
5. A city in northern India.
9. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
13. A French abbot.
14. A member of a formerly tribal people in south central India.
15. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
16. The short weak cry of a young bird.
17. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
19. A cloth having a crisscross design.
21. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
23. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
25. Being one more than ninety.
26. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
28. Avatar of Vishnu.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
37. Wood of a sumac.
40. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
41. A soft silvery metallic element.
42. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
43. The address where a person lives.
45. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
48. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
49. Genus of herbs of southern United States.
51. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
55. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
56. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
59. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
60. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
61. French tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
63. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
64. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
65. A port city in southwestern Iran.
66. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. An inhabitant of Lappland.
2. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
3. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
4. A shade of brown with a tinge of red.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
7. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
8. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
9. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.
10. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
20. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. A state in southeastern United States.
24. A light touch or stroke.
27. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
32. In bed.
33. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
35. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
36. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
38. The membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound.
39. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
40. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
44. South African term for `boss'.
46. Tree (as opposed to shrub).
47. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
52. Framework for holding objects.
53. A slender double-reed instrument.
54. A quantity of no importance.
57. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
58. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
62. Half the width of an em.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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