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1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
4. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
10. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
15. An informal term for a father.
16. An excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth.
19. The content of cognition.
20. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
21. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
22. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. Painful from having the skin abraded.
30. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
34. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
35. Foul with waste matter.
36. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
38. The state or fact of existing.
41. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
42. The eleventh month of the civil year.
46. The cry made by sheep.
48. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
55. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
59. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
61. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
62. An implement used in the practice of a vocation.
63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
64. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. A desert in central Asia.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. Any competition.
4. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
5. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
6. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
9. A state in northwestern North America.
10. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
11. Avatar of Vishnu.
12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
17. Important for human and animal food.
18. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
23. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
25. Jordan's port.
27. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
28. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
29. 10 grams.
31. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
32. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
33. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
37. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
39. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
40. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
43. Any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-gray in color.
44. The brightest star in Orion.
45. Fiddler crabs.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
50. Type genus of the Amiidae.
51. God of death.
52. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
56. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
60. A state in the eastern United States.
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