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1. An informal conversation.
5. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
10. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
13. A Loloish language.
14. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. By bad luck.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
21. The capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti.
23. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
25. The cry made by sheep.
26. A small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication.
28. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. A Hindu prince or king in India.
36. An informal term for a father.
37. The basic unit of money in Iran.
42. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
45. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
47. Type genus of the Anatidae.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
55. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
57. Before noon.
59. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
60. In a foreign country.
63. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
64. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
65. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
66. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
2. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Tuscany or its people.
5. Four books in the New Testament that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings.
6. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
7. A boy or man.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
10. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
11. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
12. British informal.
18. Not only so, but.
20. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
22. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
27. An elaborate song for solo voice.
29. The sixth month of the civil year.
30. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
31. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A son who has the same first name as his father.
38. (Phoenician) A fertility goddess.
39. The sacred city of Lamaism.
40. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
41. Jordan's port.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
46. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
48. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
50. A lyric poet.
52. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
53. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
54. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
56. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
57. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
58. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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