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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
10. A light touch or stroke.
13. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
14. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. One who works hard at boring tasks.
18. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
20. Found along western Atlantic coast.
22. A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments.
24. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
26. An artificial language.
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
33. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
36. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
37. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
41. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
45. A genus of Platalea.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
50. English monk and scholar (672-735).
54. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
58. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
59. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
61. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
62. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
63. The Greek lyric poet of Lesbos.
64. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. United States cartoonist whose comic strip included the beagle Snoopy (1922-2000).
5. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
6. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
7. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
8. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
9. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
10. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
11. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
12. Something causes misery or death.
19. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
21. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
23. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Type genus of the Pipidae.
28. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
30. God of fire.
31. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
32. Avatar of Vishnu.
34. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
35. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
38. Erect densely branched shrubby perennials of Old World tropics.
39. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
42. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
43. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
49. Give over.
51. English essayist (1775-1834).
52. Mother goddess.
53. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
55. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
56. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
57. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
60. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
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