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1. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
5. (of soil) Soft and watery.
10. A small piece of cloth.
13. Extremely robust.
14. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
21. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
23. A master's degree in business.
24. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. The fine downy hair covering a human fetus.
31. Mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker.
35. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
36. The cry made by sheep.
38. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
39. Cooked in steam.
43. Very dark black.
44. (British) A lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
45. A French abbot.
47. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
48. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
51. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
56. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
58. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
59. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
60. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
62. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
63. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
64. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
4. (Sumerian) Legendary friend of Gilgamish.
5. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
6. A state in the western United States.
7. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
8. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
9. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
10. A large quantity of written matter.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
20. A flexible container with a single opening.
22. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
25. Any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia.
27. The mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations.
29. Of or being the lowest female voice.
30. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
32. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
33. Gone by.
34. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
37. The sixth month of the civil year.
40. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
41. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
42. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
43. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
46. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. The habitation of wild animals.
54. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
55. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
57. Any of various units of capacity.
58. A master's degree in business.
61. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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