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1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
4. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
10. Inquire about.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. A sudden very loud noise.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
18. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
19. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
20. A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators.
24. Before noon.
25. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
26. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
27. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
29. A Hindu prince or king in India.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
36. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
38. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. At full speed.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. An awkward stupid person.
46. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
47. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
50. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
52. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
54. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
58. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
60. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
61. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
64. A small piece of cloth.
65. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
66. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
67. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
2. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
3. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
4. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
7. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
8. Having three dimensions.
9. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
10. A city in northern India.
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
17. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
21. English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935).
22. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
23. Leave immediately.
28. (informal) Exceptionally good.
30. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.
32. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
34. A flexible container with a single opening.
37. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
39. Makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes.
41. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
42. Having three dimensions.
45. A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809).
46. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
48. A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.
49. The month following July and preceding September.
51. Late time of life.
53. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
57. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
59. Call upon in supplication.
62. Unknown god.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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