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1. A vigorous blow.
5. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
14. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
15. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
16. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
17. (Babylonian) Goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta.
18. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. Follower of Rastafarianism.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
27. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
28. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
33. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
36. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
38. The sixth month of the civil year.
41. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
49. The act of scanning.
54. Cause to suffer.
57. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.
58. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
61. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
63. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
64. A decree that prohibits something.
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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
2. On or toward the lee.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
5. Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground.
6. An immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ.
7. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
8. Squash bugs.
9. A Loloish language.
10. Seed of a pea plant.
11. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
22. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
23. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
25. In bed.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
32. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
34. Before noon.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
39. Fallow deer.
40. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
44. A large fleet.
47. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
48. A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
50. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
51. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
52. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
53. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
55. An enclosed space.
56. The products of human creativity.
59. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
60. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
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