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1. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
4. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
9. (law) Lacking any legal or binding force.
13. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
14. A response of body tissues to injury or irritation.
15. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
16. Jordan's port.
18. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
20. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
21. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
22. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
25. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
26. A fraudulent business scheme.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. An iconic mental representation.
34. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. An udder or breast or teat.
41. God of the earth.
42. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
48. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
54. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
58. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
59. Informal terms for a mother.
60. A particular environment or walk of life.
61. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
62. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
63. Obvious and dull.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Toward the mouth or oral region.
2. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
5. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
6. Any of various units of capacity.
7. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
8. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
9. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
10. A state in the western United States.
11. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.
12. A characteristic state or mode of living.
17. An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
19. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
27. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
28. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
31. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
32. Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail.
33. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
35. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
37. The content of cognition.
39. The cry made by sheep.
43. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
44. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
45. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
49. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
50. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
51. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
52. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
55. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
56. The habitation of wild animals.
57. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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