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1. Large luxurious car.
5. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
9. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
13. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
14. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
15. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
16. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
17. Type genus of the Nepidae.
18. A Loloish language.
19. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. In bed.
30. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
33. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
37. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
38. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
40. An awkward stupid person.
41. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
47. A light touch or stroke.
49. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
50. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
55. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
57. Cut down on.
59. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
60. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
61. A port city in southwestern Iran.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. An informal term for a father.
64. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
65. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
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1. A charge imposed and collected.
2. The content of cognition.
3. A master's degree in library science.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
5. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. A tight-fitting headdress.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
9. A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy.
10. A saying that widely accepted on its own merits.
11. A genus of Laridae.
12. A type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century.
20. A woman of refinement.
21. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
27. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
31. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
32. Belonging to some prior time.
34. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
35. The month following February and preceding April.
36. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
39. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
44. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
45. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
46. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
47. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
48. A particular environment or walk of life.
51. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
54. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
56. A partially opened flower.
58. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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