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1. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
4. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
9. An independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands.
13. The month following March and preceding May.
14. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
15. Toward the mouth or oral region.
16. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
17. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
18. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
19. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
21. A fabric made of silk or a silklike fabric that resembles organdy.
23. The face or front of a building.
24. Before noon.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
31. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
40. A festival featuring African-American culture.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
46. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
56. An accidental happening.
59. A small cake leavened with yeast.
60. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
61. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
63. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
64. How long something has existed.
65. Of or relating to a creed.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
2. A drama set to music.
3. A decorative pin worn by women.
4. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
5. A column of light (as from a beacon).
6. Used of a single unit or thing.
7. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
8. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
9. Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.
10. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
11. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
12. The content of cognition.
20. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir and avenger of Balder.
22. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
26. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
29. Being one more than two.
30. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
32. The sound made by corvine birds.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
36. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
42. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
45. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
51. 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.
52. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
53. Denuded of leaves.
54. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
57. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
58. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
62. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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