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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
9. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
13. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
14. Register formally.
15. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
18. A city in east-central France on the Rhone River.
19. The vein in the center of a leaf.
22. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
23. Lower in esteem.
25. The face or front of a building.
28. Tack or small nail of tinned iron.
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
34. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
36. Before noon.
37. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
39. A bachelor's degree in science.
43. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
44. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
45. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
48. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
53. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
55. Very small species of shrubs of southern hemisphere.
56. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
59. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
60. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
61. Jordan's port.
62. A friendly nation.
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1. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
2. God of fire.
3. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
4. Provide with a new binding, as of books.
5. Render capable or able for some task.
6. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
7. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. A town in central Belgium.
10. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
11. Highly excited.
12. Type genus of the Ranidae.
20. Having been read.
21. Flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water.
24. Cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money.
26. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
27. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
29. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
30. God of love and erotic desire.
32. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
35. Soft creamy white cheese.
38. English essayist (1775-1834).
40. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
41. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
42. Common American weed or wildflower.
46. The sixth month of the civil year.
47. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. Made of fir or pine.
51. Using speech rather than writing.
52. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
54. The basic unit of money in Albania.
57. Unknown god.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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