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1. The tenth month of the Hindu calendar.
4. Affect with wonder.
9. The highest level or degree attainable.
13. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
14. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
15. The state of being covered with unclean things.
16. An alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral.
19. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
20. A state in northwestern North America.
23. With rapid movements.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
28. Informal terms for a mother.
32. The eleventh month of the civil year.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
38. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
41. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. The sign language used in the United States.
45. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
47. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
49. A loose cloak with a hood.
52. A city in northeastern Ohio.
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
57. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
60. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
61. Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted.
62. A feeling of intense anger.
63. Divulge information or secrets.
64. English monk and scholar (672-735).
65. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
66. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
3. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. 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.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
8. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
9. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
10. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
11. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
12. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
17. Derived by copying something else.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
24. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
27. Morally bad or wrong.
29. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
30. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
31. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A city and port in northern Jutland.
40. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
42. Situated away from an area's coast or border.
46. American dramatist (1928- ).
48. Jordan's port.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. A small stream.
54. Using speech rather than writing.
55. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
58. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. Remaining after all deductions.
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