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1. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
4. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
9. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
13. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
14. (geology) Before the appearance of life.
15. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
16. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
20. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
28. (law) Lacking any legal or binding force.
32. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
33. The capital of Croatia.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
41. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
42. Two items of the same kind.
43. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
45. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
49. Half the width of an em.
50. Lower in esteem.
54. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
56. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
57. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
58. North American rat snakes.
61. An enclosed space.
62. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
63. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
64. A transuranic element.
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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
4. Bark rich in tannin.
5. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
6. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
7. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
10. A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing.
11. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
12. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
17. Spread or diffuse through.
19. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
21. Living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite.
23. Subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe.
24. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
26. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
27. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
29. A married German woman.
30. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
31. In bed.
34. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
36. Inquire about.
37. The father of your father or mother.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
44. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
46. The state of being decayed or destroyed.
47. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
48. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
51. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
52. The complete duration of something.
53. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
55. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
60. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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