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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
9. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
13. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
14. Cooked by frying in fat.
15. A shade of blue tinged with green.
16. The basic unit of money in Iran.
18. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
19. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
23. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
24. An informal term for a father.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
31. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
35. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
39. Seed of a pea plant.
40. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
41. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
42. Small siskin-like finch with a red crown.
46. Type genus of the Anatidae.
47. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
48. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
61. An associate degree in applied science.
62. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
63. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
65. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
66. A doctor's degree in education.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. Jordan's port.
4. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
7. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
8. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Jordan's port.
11. In some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.
12. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
17. Wood of a larch tree.
22. A branch of the Tai languages.
25. A person forced to flee from home or country.
28. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
30. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
32. Towards the side away from the wind.
33. A slight amount or degree of difference.
34. A bachelor's degree in library science.
36. The month following April and preceding June.
37. Top part of an apron.
38. (informal) Of the highest quality.
43. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. Informal terms for a mother.
49. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
50. In bed.
51. Loose or flaccid body fat.
53. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
54. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
55. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
57. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
58. Gone by.
59. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
60. A person's brother or sister.
64. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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