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1. A tight-fitting headdress.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. A small vessel for travel on water.
13. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
14. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
15. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
18. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
19. Any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor.
21. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
23. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
26. An elevated geological formation.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
36. (informal) Of the highest quality.
39. An awkward stupid person.
40. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
43. Any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup.
46. An informal term for a father.
47. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
48. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
52. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
56. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
57. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
60. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
61. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
64. Either extremity of something that has length.
65. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
66. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
3. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
4. Having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices.
5. Chief port of Yemen.
6. Of the blackest black.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
9. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
10. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
11. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
12. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
20. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
31. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
37. A small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence.
38. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
41. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
42. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
43. The habitation of wild animals.
44. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
45. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
46. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
49. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
50. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
51. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981).
55. Offering fun and gaiety.
58. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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