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1. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
4. Climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes.
10. Not reflecting light.
13. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
14. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
17. A British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons.
18. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
23. Greek mythology.
25. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
27. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
33. That is to say.
34. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
36. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
37. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
38. 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.
40. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. 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.
45. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
48. A Loloish language.
51. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
53. Covered patchily.
57. An actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression.
60. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
63. As if new.
64. Using speech rather than writing.
65. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
66. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
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1. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
4. The airforce of Great Britain.
5. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
6. Informal terms for clothing.
7. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
8. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
9. (British) Your grandmother.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
20. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. One thousandth of a second.
26. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
28. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
29. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
30. A city in northern India.
31. A fraudulent business scheme.
32. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
35. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
45. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
46. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
47. Of or relating to or involving an area.
49. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
50. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
52. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
53. Used of a single unit or thing.
54. City in eastern Belgium.
55. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
56. The specified day of the month.
58. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
59. Take in solid food.
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