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1. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
4. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
9. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
14. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
15. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
16. Usually large hard-shelled seed.
17. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
18. Flat tableland with steep edges.
19. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
21. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
23. Transient cessation of respiration.
24. Filled with a great quantity.
26. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
30. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. A member of the Caddo people formerly living between Kansas and central Texas.
38. Of or belonging to an aecium.
41. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
42. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
44. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
47. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
51. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
59. (anatomy) Opposite to or away from the mouth.
60. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
61. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
62. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
63. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
2. Eat noisily.
3. A person of exceptional importance and reputation.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. Adopted in order to deceive.
6. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
9. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. Imprudently incurring risk.
12. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
20. Give over.
22. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
28. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
29. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
31. Used of a single unit or thing.
32. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
33. Being five more than one hundred forty.
34. Capital of Vanuatu.
35. God of wealth and love.
39. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
40. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
43. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
48. Set down according to a plan.
49. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
53. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. A flexible container with a single opening.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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