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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
10. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
15. An awkward stupid person.
16. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
18. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
19. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
21. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Jordan's port.
29. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
30. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
33. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
34. The residue that remains when something is burned.
36. A Russian river.
37. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
43. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
44. A B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
50. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
55. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
56. A deep bow.
59. Two items of the same kind.
60. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
61. A member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia.
62. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
63. An informal term for a father.
64. Used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man.
65. Tag the base runner to get him out.
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1. Altered from an originally straight condition.
2. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
3. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
7. A castrated tomcat.
8. Half the width of an em.
9. Kauri pine.
10. Of texture.
11. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
12. The second largest city in Tunisia.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. An audiotape recording of sound.
22. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
24. A very wealthy or powerful businessman.
25. A state in midwestern United States.
27. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
28. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
31. A unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere.
32. In bed.
35. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
38. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
39. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
42. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
45. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
46. Closed with a lace.
47. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
48. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596).
51. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
52. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
53. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
54. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
57. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
58. Having leadership guidance.
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