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1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. An informal conversation.
10. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
13. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
14. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages.
15. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
16. An informal conversation.
18. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
19. Gum-like substance from the sapodilla.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. Being nine more than ninety.
24. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
25. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
28. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
31. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
34. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Colloquial British abbreviation.
38. Open to change.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
41. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
42. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
43. A state of southwestern India.
45. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
47. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
50. Avatar of Vishnu.
54. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
57. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
58. An onerous or difficult concern.
59. Type genus of the Anatidae.
61. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
62. Being nothing more than specified.
63. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
64. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
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1. Any of various floor-like platforms built into a vessel.
2. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
5. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
6. Of or relating to or near the nares.
7. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
9. Cut the head of.
10. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
11. World's longest river (4187 miles).
12. To run away.
17. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
20. Take in, also metaphorically.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. A downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles.
27. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
29. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
30. Very dark black.
32. A Spanish river.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. In bed.
39. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
40. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
44. Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality.
46. Any plant of the genus Erica.
48. A narrow way or road.
49. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
53. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
55. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
56. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
60. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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