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1. Enlarged prostate.
4. Cause to be embarrassed.
9. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
13. Towards the side away from the wind.
14. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
15. A telephone connection.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
18. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
19. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. An island in the Persian Gulf.
23. The basic unit of money in Iran.
26. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
27. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Squash bugs.
37. Anything that serves as an enticement.
40. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
47. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
57. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
59. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
63. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
64. A city in central New York.
65. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties.
3. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
4. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
5. An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
6. (informal) Of the highest quality.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
9. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
11. A song that was formerly popular.
12. An occurrence of thorough mixing.
20. Grain intended to be or that has been ground.
22. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
24. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
28. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
29. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
34. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
35. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
36. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
41. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
43. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
44. Jordan's port.
45. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
48. A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans.
51. In bed.
52. Two items of the same kind.
54. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
55. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
56. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
58. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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