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1. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
4. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
9. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
15. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
16. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
17. A genus of Platalea.
18. Long and thin and often limp.
19. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. American novelist (1909-1955).
28. The act of scanning.
32. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
35. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
37. Call upon in supplication.
38. The cry made by sheep.
40. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
41. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
43. A light touch or stroke.
45. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
46. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
50. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
53. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
54. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
55. Oil palms.
57. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
60. A fraudulent business scheme.
61. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
64. (British) Your grandmother.
65. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
66. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
5. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
6. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
7. A female domestic.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. A Russian river.
12. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
20. In bed.
21. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
23. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
24. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
26. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
27. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
29. A kind of person.
30. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
31. An accountant certified by the state.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. An informal term for a father.
36. Humorously vulgar.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
44. Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type.
45. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
47. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
51. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
52. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
56. An enclosed space.
58. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
62. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
63. An uproarious party.
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