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1. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
4. Involving the entire earth.
10. Considerate and solicitous care.
13. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
14. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
15. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
16. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. Type genus of the Amiidae.
22. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
24. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
25. A circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue.
28. Gull family.
32. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
35. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
36. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
38. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
39. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
40. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
46. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
49. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
52. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
56. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
57. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
60. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
61. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
62. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
64. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
65. The residue that remains when something is burned.
66. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
67. The habitation of wild animals.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
3. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
4. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
5. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
6. Used of a single unit or thing.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. A large fleet.
9. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
11. Being seven more than fifty.
12. The closing section of a musical composition.
17. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
18. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
20. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
21. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
23. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
26. Lacking companions or companionship.
27. Colloquial British abbreviation.
29. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
30. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
31. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
33. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
42. Type genus of the Amiidae.
43. Old World woody vines.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
47. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
50. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
51. A wound made by cutting.
53. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
54. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
55. Very dark black.
58. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
59. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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