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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
10. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
13. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
14. (of animals) Fully developed.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim.
17. On or toward the lee.
18. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
19. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
22. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
24. Offering fun and gaiety.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
32. Tag the base runner to get him out.
35. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. A pass between mountain peaks.
38. In a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
44. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
46. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
48. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
57. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
59. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
65. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
66. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
67. A special lineage.
68. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. The verbal act of offering.
2. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
3. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature (1888-1965).
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
5. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
6. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
7. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
8. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
9. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
10. A small cake leavened with yeast.
11. A city in northern India.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
20. Extremely pleasing.
21. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
23. Informal terms for a mother.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
29. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
30. An opening into or through something.
31. By bad luck.
33. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
34. Cry plaintively.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Enthusiastic approval.
40. Singing jazz.
42. Flat tableland with steep edges.
45. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
47. Lower in esteem.
50. Large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male.
52. Slightly open.
53. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
54. Framework for holding objects.
55. A slender double-reed instrument.
56. A quantity of no importance.
58. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. How long something has existed.
61. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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