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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
9. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
15. Largest known toad species.
16. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
17. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
18. Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804).
19. By bad luck.
21. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
22. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
23. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
24. An informal term for a father.
26. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
28. A very light brown.
31. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
33. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
35. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
36. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
39. A motley assortment of things.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. Treacherously cowardly.
49. A city and port in northern Jutland.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
57. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
60. A sudden numbing dread.
61. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
62. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
63. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
64. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
65. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
66. Stalk of a moss capsule.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
4. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
5. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
6. Hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo.
7. Black tropical American cuckoo.
8. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
9. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
12. (usually followed by `to') Determined by tragic fate.
20. Short and fat.
25. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
27. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
29. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
30. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
32. A soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. The Fate who cuts the thread of life.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A port city in southwestern Iran.
47. Related on the father's side.
48. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
50. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
52. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
53. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
55. A position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable.
56. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
58. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
59. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
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