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1. A person's brother or sister.
4. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
10. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
13. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
14. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
15. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. French mathematician who described the conditions for solving polynomial equations.
18. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
19. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
21. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
23. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
25. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
26. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
29. A radioactive transuranic element that is similar to uranium.
30. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
34. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
35. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
37. A small piece of cloth.
38. A human limb.
40. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
43. An official who weighs and records the weight.
45. Coarse edible red seaweed.
46. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
48. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
59. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
60. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
61. Jordan's port.
62. A notable achievement.
63. A doctor's degree in education.
64. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Speaking a Slavic language.
2. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
3. A small vessel for travel on water.
4. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
5. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
6. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
7. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
8. A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad.
9. (Babylonian) Father of the gods.
10. Singing jazz.
11. Affected manners intended to impress others.
12. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
20. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
22. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
24. Of surpassing excellence.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. (prefix) Half or partial.
31. Using speech rather than writing.
32. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
33. American novelist (1909-1955).
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
41. The sixth month of the civil year.
42. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
43. Singing jazz.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. Obvious and dull.
49. A slender double-reed instrument.
50. An unofficial association of people or groups.
51. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
52. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
53. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
54. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
55. A quantity of no importance.
58. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
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