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1. An honorary degree in science.
4. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
9. Flat tableland with steep edges.
13. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
14. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
15. The second largest city in Tunisia.
16. A Russian river.
18. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
19. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
20. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
24. Covered with paving material.
26. Of a pale purple color.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
35. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
38. State in northeastern India.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. Fiddler crabs.
51. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
54. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
55. In addition.
56. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
60. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
61. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
62. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
63. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
64. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
65. An extreme state of adversity.
66. An informal term for a father.
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1. A single splash.
2. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
3. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
4. A unit of potential equal to a thousand volts.
5. A resource.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. An associate degree in applied science.
8. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
9. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
10. Property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business.
11. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
12. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
17. A large fleet.
21. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
22. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
23. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
25. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
33. The last (12th) month of the year.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. 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.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
44. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
45. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
46. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
47. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
48. Having two feet.
49. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
50. Closed with a lace.
52. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
53. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
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