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1. The cry made by sheep.
4. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
10. How long something has existed.
13. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
14. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
15. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
16. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
17. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
18. Being one more than fifty.
19. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
21. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
23. Being nine more than forty.
25. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
31. Muslim name for God.
33. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
35. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
39. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
40. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
42. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
43. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
45. Send out rays or waves.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. A doctor's degree in religion.
50. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
58. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. Sacred text of Zoroastrianism.
64. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
65. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
66. Having or arranged in tiers.
67. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
3. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
4. A period of time spent sleeping.
5. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
6. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
7. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
8. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
9. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
12. Any plant of the genus Erica.
20. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
22. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
24. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
26. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
32. A salt of any halogen acid.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
37. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
38. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
41. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
44. British informal term.
46. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
48. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
51. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
52. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
53. Mother goddess.
55. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. A coffin along with its stand.
59. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
60. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
61. A flexible container with a single opening.
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