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1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
10. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. Shaped like a dish.
21. By bad luck.
22. A hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form.
23. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
25. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
34. Situated at an apex.
36. Declared but not proved.
37. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
38. That are used.
39. A fraudulent business scheme.
41. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
42. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
43. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
44. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
46. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
55. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
58. The levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa).
60. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
61. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
63. A notable achievement.
64. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
65. English monk and scholar (672-735).
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. God of wealth and love.
6. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
9. A town in north central Oklahoma.
10. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
11. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
12. Produced by a manufacturing process.
17. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
20. A glass for beer.
24. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
26. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
27. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. Any high mountain.
30. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
31. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
32. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
33. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
35. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
40. God of death.
45. A genus of Ploceidae.
46. An expression of greeting.
47. Having made preparations.
48. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
50. In bed.
52. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
53. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. A quantity of no importance.
56. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
59. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
62. 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.
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