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1. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
4. Marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell.
9. Derive or receive pleasure from.
13. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
14. Excessively fat.
15. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
16. 36th President of the United States.
17. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
18. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
19. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
21. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
26. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
27. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
30. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
40. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
42. 1 species.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. A young woman making her debut into society.
46. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
47. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.
55. A drama set to music.
58. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
59. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
61. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
62. The act of scanning.
63. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
64. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
2. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
3. A Hindu prince or king in India.
4. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
5. A port city in southwestern Iran.
6. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
7. (Babylonian and Assyrian) Goddess of love and fertility and war.
8. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
9. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
20. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
22. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
28. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
29. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
31. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
32. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. A member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in southwestern United States.
37. Lacking natural ease.
38. Made uninhabitable.
39. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
44. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
48. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. Characteristic of false pride.
54. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
56. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
57. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
58. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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