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1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. Lower in esteem.
9. A gap between cloud masses.
13. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
14. A complete extent or range.
15. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
16. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
17. A genus of Lamnidae.
18. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
21. In operation or operational.
23. Oil palms.
24. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
25. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
40. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
42. Resembling a berry.
44. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
47. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
50. A large fleet.
54. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
58. A gum used especially as a thickener or emulsifier.
59. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
62. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
63. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
65. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
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1. Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.
2. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
3. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
4. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
7. A member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Mohammed.
8. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
10. The eighth month of the civil year.
11. An act of gracious kindness.
12. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
28. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
30. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
31. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
32. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. Take in solid food.
36. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
39. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
41. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
43. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
45. Of or relating to or involving an area.
46. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
51. A city in northern India.
52. Go "ding dong", like a bell.
53. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
55. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
56. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
60. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. A public promotion of some product or service.
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