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1. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
4. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
10. Of southern Europe.
13. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
14. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
17. Marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking.
18. Tag the base runner to get him out.
19. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
21. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. Being one more than fifty.
28. In bed.
32. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
36. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
42. A Mid-Atlantic state.
44. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A port city in southwestern Iran.
53. The front limb of a quadruped.
56. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
58. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
59. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
60. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
63. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
64. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
65. King of the Huns.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
2. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. Serving to purge or rid of sin.
5. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
6. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
7. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
8. Used of a single unit or thing.
9. United States baseball player (born 1925).
10. God of fire.
11. Singing jazz.
12. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
20. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
22. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
31. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
33. How long something has existed.
34. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
35. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
39. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
40. (optics) Having two foci.
41. United States baseball player (born 1925).
43. An informal term for a father.
45. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
46. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
47. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
52. Something that hinders as if with bonds v 1.
54. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
55. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
57. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
61. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
62. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
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