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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
5. A cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church).
10. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
13. American novelist (1909-1955).
14. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
15. An associate degree in applied science.
16. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
17. Same in identity.
18. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
19. An island of central Hawaii.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
26. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
34. By bad luck.
37. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
38. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.
40. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
41. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
50. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
53. Any of several seeds that yield oil.
57. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
60. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
61. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
62. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
63. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
64. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
3. Lacking excess flesh.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. The unit of frequency.
6. A large quantity of written matter.
7. God of the Underworld.
8. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
9. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
10. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
20. A state in midwestern United States.
22. Lower in esteem.
27. One of the common people.
28. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
29. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
32. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
33. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
35. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
39. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
44. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
45. A poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare.
46. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
48. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
51. An Asian river between China and Russia.
52. Something causes misery or death.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. At any time.
55. (Greek mythology) God of love.
56. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
58. A light touch or stroke.
59. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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