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1. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
4. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
10. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. Without moral standards or principles.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A river in Germany.
21. Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
26. In a nimble or agile manner.
31. A salt deposit that animals regularly lick.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
35. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
39. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. Bringing death.
50. Jordan's port.
53. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
54. A human female who does housework.
56. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
57. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
58. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
5. A green transparent form of beryl.
6. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
7. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
8. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
9. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
10. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
11. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
12. The first light of day.
18. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
20. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. Minor or subordinate.
27. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
28. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A light touch or stroke.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
33. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
36. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. Flavored with sour orange peel.
39. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
41. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
42. A native-born Israeli.
43. A Nilotic language.
44. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
45. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
47. A Loloish language.
48. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
49. 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. Call upon in supplication.
52. Being one more than two.
53. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
55. Being one more than one hundred.
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