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1. A Spanish title of respect for a gentleman or nobleman.
4. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
10. Not reflecting light.
13. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
14. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
18. (prefix) Half or partial.
19. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
20. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
21. Before noon.
23. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
26. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
27. Lower in esteem.
31. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
34. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
35. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
36. South African term for `boss'.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. Type genus of the Gavidae.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
53. Not easy.
54. The airforce of Great Britain.
58. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
59. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
60. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
62. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. (used informally) Very small.
65. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
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1. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
2. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
3. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
4. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
7. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
8. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying the primeval sea.
9. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
17. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
25. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
28. (informal) Of the highest quality.
29. The chance to speak.
30. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
32. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
33. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. Free and relaxed in manner.
42. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
43. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
46. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
47. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
48. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
52. Give over.
53. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
56. Botfly larva.
57. An associate degree in applied science.
61. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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