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1. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
5. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
10. Of southern Europe.
13. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
14. A compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms.
15. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
17. A town in north central Oklahoma.
19. A festival featuring African-American culture.
22. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
24. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
25. A youthful male person.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. Annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia.
37. Lace again.
39. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
40. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak.
43. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
48. In bed.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
58. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
59. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
61. Being one more than two.
62. The basic unit of money in Albania.
63. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
64. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A lump of hard consolidated mineral matter.
2. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
3. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
4. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
5. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
6. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
7. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
8. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.
9. Half the width of an em.
10. Sour or bitter in taste.
11. A disassembled barrel.
12. Division of a usually pinnately divided leaf.
18. Jordan's port.
20. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
26. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
27. River in eastern Asia.
30. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
32. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
33. Informal terms for a mother.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
38. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
39. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.
41. (informal) Of the highest quality.
42. An informal term for a father.
46. A French abbot.
47. Related to or located at the back.
48. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
49. (informal) Exceptionally good.
50. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
51. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
53. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
54. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
55. Having leadership guidance.
57. Being two more than fifty.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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