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1. Large American feline resembling a lion.
5. A form of Japanese poetry.
10. A unit of pain intensity.
13. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
14. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive.
17. Lean end of the neck.
18. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
19. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
21. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
23. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. A village in Jordan near the north end of the Dead Sea.
32. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
33. God of the earth.
34. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
38. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
40. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
47. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
49. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
52. Jordan's port.
54. Choose and follow.
58. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
60. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
61. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
62. A member of the tribe of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century AD.
64. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
65. Used of a single unit or thing.
66. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
67. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat v 1.
2. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
3. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
5. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
6. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
7. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
8. The basic unit of money in China.
9. The mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations.
10. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
20. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
26. A cgs unit of work or energy.
27. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
30. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
31. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
37. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
39. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
43. Having a slightly undulating margin.
44. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
46. A city in northeastern Ohio.
47. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
48. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
50. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
51. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
55. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
56. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
57. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
59. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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