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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
10. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
13. Avatar of Vishnu.
14. A means of serving.
15. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
16. (botany) Of some seeds.
17. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
19. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
20. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
23. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
25. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
27. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
30. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
33. The sign language used in the United States.
34. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
36. A penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci.
38. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
44. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
52. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
59. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
60. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
61. (British) Your grandmother.
62. First in order of birth.
65. A negative.
66. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
67. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Toward the mouth or oral region.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Expel, as of gases and odors.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. A quantity of no importance.
6. The eleventh month of the civil year.
7. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
8. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
9. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
10. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
11. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
12. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
18. Of short duration or distance.
21. Of or in or relating to the nose.
22. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
24. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
26. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
28. A person who makes use of a thing.
29. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
31. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
32. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
35. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
41. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
45. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
46. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
49. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
50. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
51. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
52. Being nine more than forty.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn place in a garment.
55. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
56. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
58. 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.
63. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
64. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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