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1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
5. State in northeastern India.
10. Of the blackest black.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. A daughter of your brother or sister.
17. A quantity of no importance.
18. The basic unit of money in Albania.
19. An informal term for a father.
22. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. The superior of an abbey of monks.
33. Genus of South African or Asiatic herbs.
37. Type genus of the Ranidae.
38. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. Jordan's port.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
50. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
58. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
59. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
60. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
62. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
63. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
64. The item at the end.
65. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. Having or displaying warmth or affection.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
6. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
7. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
8. Having help.
9. A master's degree in business.
10. A loose cloak with a hood.
11. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
12. The income arising from land or other property.
20. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
21. A French abbot.
23. (informal) Of the highest quality.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
28. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
31. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
32. A bachelor's degree in theology.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
36. An informal term for a father.
41. Of or belonging to an aecium.
42. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
43. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
45. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
47. Dwell (archaic).
48. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
49. Lower in esteem.
51. In bed.
52. A sudden short attack.
53. A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core.
56. An associate degree in applied science.
57. 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.
61. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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