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1. A person's brother or sister.
4. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
9. Young of domestic cattle.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
15. A primeval personification of air and breath.
16. Extremely pleasing.
17. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
18. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
19. Wearing a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness.
22. Chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs.
25. Make high-pitched, whiney noises.
28. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
29. A period of time spent sleeping.
32. American novelist (1909-1955).
35. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
36. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
38. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
40. A state in southeastern United States.
41. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. Any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon.
46. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
47. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. An ancient port city in southwestern Spain.
58. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
59. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
60. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
61. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
62. Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns.
63. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
64. An audiotape recording of sound.
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1. Lacking in hardness relatively or comparatively.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
4. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
5. Elk or moose.
6. A piece of soft material that protects an injured part of the body v 1.
7. Used of a single unit or thing.
8. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
9. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
10. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
11. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
12. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
20. Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage.
21. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
23. Find repugnant.
24. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. A fit of shivering.
27. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
30. God of fire.
31. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
33. The cry made by sheep.
34. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
37. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
39. A festival featuring African-American culture.
40. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
44. Having a bulb.
45. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
48. The sixth month of the civil year.
49. An organization of military naval forces.
50. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
51. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
52. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
53. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
54. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
57. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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