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1. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
5. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
10. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
14. The back side of the neck.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
18. Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute.
19. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
20. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
21. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
29. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
33. A motley assortment of things.
36. Make less active or intense.
38. American novelist (1909-1955).
39. A French abbot.
41. The act of drawing or hauling something.
42. A characteristic sound.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
45. Jordan's port.
47. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
48. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
55. Any high mountain.
56. 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.
60. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
61. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
62. Of or relating to a wedding.
63. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
64. An associate degree in applied science.
65. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
66. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
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1. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. Work hard.
4. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
5. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
6. The month following July and preceding September.
7. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
8. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
9. An erratic deflection from an intended course.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
11. Type genus of the Ranidae.
12. By bad luck.
17. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
25. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
27. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
28. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
31. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
32. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
34. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
35. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
37. God of wealth and love.
40. The cry made by sheep.
44. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
46. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
49. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
50. Type genus of the Apidae.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. Divulge information or secrets.
53. English monk and scholar (672-735).
54. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
57. A human limb.
58. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
59. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
60. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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