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1. On the positive side or higher end of a scale.
5. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
10. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
13. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
14. Of or like a cecum.
15. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
16. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
18. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
20. A river in eastern France.
21. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
23. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
24. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
25. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. American novelist (1909-1955).
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
39. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Enthusiastic approval.
46. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
49. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
51. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
55. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
57. Go on board.
58. Adult female chicken.
59. A port city in southwestern Iran.
62. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
63. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
64. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
65. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. Characterized by extravagance and profusion.
2. A person afflicted with leprosy.
3. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
4. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
5. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
6. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
9. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
10. By bad luck.
11. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
12. An Eskimo hut.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. Any of various units of capacity.
26. Extremely pleasing.
27. Type genus of the Blattidae.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. Clean or orderly.
31. Stalk of a moss capsule.
33. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
37. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
42. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
43. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
44. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
45. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
47. Of or relating to or involving an area.
48. A genus of Lamnidae.
50. On or toward the lee.
52. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
53. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
54. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
56. A light touch or stroke.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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