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1. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
5. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
10. Give a nickname to.
13. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
14. Lower in esteem.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. The sixth month of the civil year.
17. An extreme state of adversity.
18. Used of a single unit or thing.
19. Humorously vulgar.
21. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
26. Situated in front of the anus.
29. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
36. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
38. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
39. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
41. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
47. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
49. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
52. 1 species.
56. On or toward the lee.
57. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
60. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
61. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
64. A cooperative unit.
65. A local computer network for communication between computers.
66. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
67. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
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1. Indicating the most important performer or role.
2. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
3. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
4. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
5. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
9. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
10. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
11. Relating to or near the ulna.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
20. A Russian river.
22. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
24. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
27. Type genus of the Ranidae.
28. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
33. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
34. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
35. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
37. A song that was formerly popular.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
43. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
44. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
48. Make less active or intense.
50. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
51. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
53. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
58. (British) Your grandmother.
59. Used of a single unit or thing.
62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
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