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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. A large fleet.
10. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and norethynodrel.
15. A doctor's degree in education.
16. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
18. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
19. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
20. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
23. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
25. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
27. (usually plural) When two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots the result is called `boxcars'.
31. Jordan's port.
35. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
40. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
41. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
47. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
51. Type genus of the Majidae.
55. The capital and largest city of Mozambique.
58. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
59. Be obliged to pay or repay.
60. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
62. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
63. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
64. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
65. A state of southwestern India.
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1. Armor plate that protects the chest.
2. Serving as or forming a base.
3. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
4. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
5. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
6. Among the largest bony fish.
7. A genus of Indriidae.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
11. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
12. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
17. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
21. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
22. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
24. An informal term for a father.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
29. Being one more than ninety.
30. A deep bow.
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. Common Indian weaverbird.
34. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
39. The cry made by sheep.
42. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
43. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
45. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
46. Greek mythology.
48. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
49. A genus of Platalea.
52. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
53. (prefix) Outside or outer.
54. A Loloish language.
56. The bill in a restaurant.
57. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
61. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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