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1. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
4. Obvious and dull.
9. A short theatrical episode.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Any plant of the genus Erica.
15. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
16. A genus of Ploceidae.
18. Austrian composer (1860-1911).
20. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
21. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
22. Mother goddess.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. (of groups of people) Tending to travel and change settlements frequently.
29. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
33. Water frozen in the solid state.
34. A police officer who investigates crimes.
35. Used of a single unit or thing.
36. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
42. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
43. Greek god of light.
44. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
46. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
49. Marked by extreme anger.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
54. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
57. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
58. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
59. A large fleet.
61. Top part of an apron.
62. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
63. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
64. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
2. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
3. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
4. Covered with beads of liquid.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
9. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
10. A knee-length pleated tartan skirt.
11. In the Roman calendar.
12. A three-tone Chadic language.
17. An informal term for a father.
19. The sixth month of the civil year.
23. A bodily organ that is essential for life.
24. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
27. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
28. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
30. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
31. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
32. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
37. A quantity of no importance.
38. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
39. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
40. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
41. A brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. In bed.
48. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
50. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
51. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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