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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. A knapsack (usually for a soldier).
10. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A genus of Scolopacidae.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
18. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
23. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
26. Any of various small biting flies.
29. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
34. A Hindu prince or king in India.
36. A boy or man.
37. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
50. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
54. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
57. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
58. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
60. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
61. The mother of your father or mother.
62. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
63. A doctor's degree in education.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
4. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
5. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
6. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
7. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
8. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
9. 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.
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
11. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
17. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
24. Jordan's port.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
28. Slightly open.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
32. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
33. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
35. A genus of Ploceidae.
38. A game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard.
40. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
44. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
45. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
47. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
48. Water containing salts.
49. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
51. Report or maintain.
52. A Russian river.
53. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
55. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
56. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
59. Conforming to truth.
60. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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