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1. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
4. A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points.
10. Of southern Europe.
13. The month following March and preceding May.
14. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
18. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
19. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
20. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
21. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
24. Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization.
28. (trademark) An antacid.
33. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
35. The bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates.
36. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
39. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
40. By bad luck.
42. The Creator.
44. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
52. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
56. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
58. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
59. The residue that remains when something is burned.
60. Mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.
61. A branch of the Tai languages.
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1. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
4. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
5. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
6. Characterized by disconcerting directness in manner or speech.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
9. Consistent with fact or reality.
10. American novelist (1909-1955).
11. A fraudulent business scheme.
12. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
17. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
22. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
23. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. A Russian river.
27. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
29. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
30. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
31. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
32. Being one more than forty.
34. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
37. The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river.
38. A soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative.
39. Consistent with fact or reality.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. (computer science) A unit for measuring computing power.
44. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
45. The visual percept of a region.
46. Understood in a certain way.
48. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
49. A vigorous blow.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
54. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
57. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
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