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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. A card game for 2 players.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
18. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
19. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. A large fleet.
22. State in northeastern India.
24. (informal) Exceptionally good.
27. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
33. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
35. (informal) Roused to anger.
38. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
41. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
44. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
45. The second month of the Hindu calendar.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
52. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
56. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
59. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
60. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
61. A clergyman in many Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites.
63. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
64. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
65. Transparent anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
2. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
3. Crowd or pack to capacity.
4. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
7. Type genus of the Bramidae.
8. A unit of pressure.
9. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
10. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
11. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia.
12. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. In bed.
23. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
32. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
37. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
39. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
40. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
42. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
43. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
44. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia.
46. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
48. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
51. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
53. Serving as or forming a base.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. God of love and erotic desire.
57. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
58. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
62. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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