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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
10. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
13. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
14. A squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit.
15. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. Used especially in treating bruises.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
27. A small bone.
30. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
34. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
38. Take in solid food.
39. A state in midwestern United States.
41. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
43. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
45. A decree that prohibits something.
46. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.
55. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
57. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
58. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
59. Of the blackest black.
60. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube.
63. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
64. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
65. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties.
3. God of death.
4. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
5. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
6. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
7. Type genus of the Amiidae.
8. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
9. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
10. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
11. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
12. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
20. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
22. An island republic on Nauru Island.
24. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
25. Unknown god.
26. Chief god.
28. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
29. Wife of Ramachandra.
31. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Tropical African and Indian herbs.
41. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
42. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. Sound of something in rapid motion.
47. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
48. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Type genus of the Bramidae.
52. Report or maintain.
53. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
54. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
55. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
56. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
61. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
62. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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