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1. A branch of the Tai languages.
4. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
10. The sign language used in the United States.
13. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
14. A port city in southwestern Iran.
15. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
16. Small genus of bitter-rooted herbs of eastern North America and Asia.
18. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
20. A city in east central Texas.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
25. The 4th planet from the sun.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. One who works hard at boring tasks.
40. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
41. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
42. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
46. A genus of Mustelidae.
47. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. Strong and sharp.
58. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
59. Any plant of the genus Erica.
60. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
61. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
62. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
63. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
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1. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
2. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
5. (psychology) Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal.
6. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
9. A town in north central Oklahoma.
10. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
11. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
12. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
17. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
19. Young sheep.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
27. Heal or recover.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
37. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
38. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
39. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
43. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
44. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
45. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. The sixth month of the civil year.
49. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
50. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
51. Common Indian weaverbird.
52. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
55. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
56. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
57. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
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