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1. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
4. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
9. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
13. Considerate and solicitous care.
14. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
15. Highly excited.
16. By bad luck.
18. Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves.
20. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. Be successful.
30. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
34. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
36. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
37. A light touch or stroke.
38. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
40. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
41. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
42. A state in midwestern United States.
44. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
47. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
52. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
55. Dyed with henna.
57. Squash bugs.
59. A master's degree in business.
60. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
61. The third month of the civil year.
63. A decree that prohibits something.
64. Used of a single unit or thing.
65. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
5. Vasoconstrictor (trade names Privine and Sudafed) used in nasal sprays to treat symptoms of nasal congestion and in eyedrops to treat eye irritation.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935).
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile v 1.
12. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
17. Wood of a sumac.
19. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
22. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
26. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
28. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
29. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
31. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
32. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
33. A young woman making her debut into society.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. Of or relating to the Sinhalese languages.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. An argument opposed to a proposal.
45. A fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant.
46. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
48. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
49. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
53. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
54. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
56. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
58. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
62. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
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