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1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
5. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
9. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
13. The protruding part of the lower jaw.
14. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. A small stream.
17. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
18. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
19. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
21. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
23. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
25. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
26. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
28. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
29. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
30. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
39. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
40. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
55. A town in north central Oklahoma.
57. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
59. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
60. (informal) Of the highest quality.
61. A city in central Alabama on the Alabama river.
62. Heal or recover.
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1. A very light brown.
2. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
3. German mathematician (1862-1943).
4. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
5. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
8. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
9. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
10. State of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior.
11. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
12. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
20. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
22. Turn pale, as if in fear.
24. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
27. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
31. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
32. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
33. An informal term for a father.
34. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
36. Bar temporarily.
37. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
41. Lower in esteem.
43. Russian country house.
44. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
45. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
46. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
48. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
49. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
53. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
54. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
58. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
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