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1. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
4. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
10. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. The wood of an African obeche tree.
15. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
21. (of hair) Made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance.
23. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
26. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. A commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido.
30. Type genus of the Clupeidae.
34. American novelist (1909-1955).
35. A French abbot.
37. Long and thin and often limp.
38. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
39. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
42. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
49. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
51. An authoritative person who divines the future.
54. Related on the mother's side.
58. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
61. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. Black tropical American cuckoo.
63. Away from the mouth or oral region.
65. A three-year law degree.
66. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
67. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
68. The month following July and preceding September.
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1. The closing section of a musical composition.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
4. A constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
7. A book of the New Testament.
8. A bowl-shaped drinking vessel.
9. In or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air.
10. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
11. A small island.
12. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
20. A tube with a small bowl at one end.
22. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
24. (informal) Exceptionally good.
25. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
28. God of fire.
29. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties.
31. Marked by the reception of pay.
32. (prefix) Within.
33. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
36. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
40. A city in southeastern Spain.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. The basic unit of money in Iran.
52. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
53. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
55. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
56. An Eskimo hut.
57. 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.
59. A unit of pain intensity.
60. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
61. Water frozen in the solid state.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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