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1. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
4. A language group of the Hokan family.
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
13. Gone by.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
15. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
16. A branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages.
18. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. A decree that prohibits something.
24. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. The month following July and preceding September.
32. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
36. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
39. An unsteady uneven gait.
41. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
44. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
46. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
47. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. (informal) Of the highest quality.
52. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
56. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. The act of drawing or hauling something.
60. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
61. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
63. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
64. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
65. Cause to feel relaxed.
66. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Set down according to a plan.
2. God of fire.
3. A blind god.
4. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
5. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
6. Genus of North American and east Asian perennial herbs.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
9. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
17. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. (Greek mythology) The father of Odysseus.
29. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
30. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
33. An informal term for a father.
34. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
35. The food served and eaten at one time.
37. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
45. American Revolutionary patriot.
48. Dearly loved.
49. In bed.
51. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
52. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
58. Fiddler crabs.
59. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
62. A radioactive transuranic element that is similar to uranium.
63. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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