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1. A unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold.
5. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
10. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
13. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
14. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. The mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations.
17. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
18. South African term for `boss'.
19. On the positive side or higher end of a scale.
22. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
25. In addition.
28. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
31. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
33. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A genus of Indriidae.
40. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
41. Any fern of the genus Osmunda.
44. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
46. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
47. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
50. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
51. Chromatic purity.
54. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
55. A quantity of no importance.
57. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
58. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
60. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
61. Made warm or hot.
62. An island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
4. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing.
7. That is to say.
8. United States cartoonist whose comic strip included the beagle Snoopy (1922-2000).
9. Informal terms for a mother.
10. Lower in esteem.
11. A Loloish language.
12. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
20. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
21. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. Related by blood.
26. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
27. The act of scanning.
29. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
30. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
36. The capital city of Vietnam.
37. Language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines.
38. A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt.
39. Leatherleaf ferns.
40. A Loloish language.
42. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
43. 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.
44. Serving as or forming a base.
45. An island of central Hawaii.
48. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
49. Lie adjacent to another.
52. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
53. A French abbot.
56. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
59. A soft silvery metallic element.
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