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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. Having winglike extensions.
10. Situated at the top or highest position.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
15. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
17. A branch of the Tai languages.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. English film actress (1913-1967).
21. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
22. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
24. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
27. A festival featuring African-American culture.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
35. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
38. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
45. Fiddler crabs.
48. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
53. Advanced in years.
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
57. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
59. Formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
60. Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.
61. An oil port in southern Iraq.
62. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
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1. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
2. A French abbot.
3. Of or relating to or located at the base.
4. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
5. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
6. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
7. Flat and uninspiring.
8. Take in solid food.
9. Not still wet.
10. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube.
11. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
20. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
23. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
25. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
26. A particular environment or walk of life.
28. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
31. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
32. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
33. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
34. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
36. 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.
37. (usually plural) When two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots the result is called `boxcars'.
38. Flat and uninspiring.
40. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
43. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
46. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
47. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
48. Black tropical American cuckoo.
49. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
51. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
52. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
54. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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