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1. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
4. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
9. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
13. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
14. Squash bugs.
15. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
16. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
17. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
18. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
19. By bad luck.
21. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
23. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
26. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
27. Minor or subordinate.
29. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
31. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
34. Personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians.
36. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. Distant in either space or time.
49. The sound made by corvine birds.
51. A nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people.
54. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
58. 10 grams.
59. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
65. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
66. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
67. Wool of the alpaca.
68. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
3. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
4. An associate degree in applied science.
5. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
6. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
7. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
8. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
9. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
10. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
11. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
12. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
20. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
22. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
24. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
25. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
28. Not only so, but.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
33. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
35. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
41. Shop where toys are sold.
42. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
44. A decree that prohibits something.
45. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
46. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
48. A midwestern state in north central United States.
50. Jordan's port.
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
53. Look at with amorous intentions.
55. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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