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1. (informal) A bunch.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. The act of grasping.
13. (prefix) Half or partial.
14. An informal term for a father.
15. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
16. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties.
17. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
18. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
19. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
21. Making low inarticulate sound as e.g. of pain or sorrow.
23. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
24. A master's degree in library science.
25. The bill in a restaurant.
29. The month following April and preceding June.
32. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
34. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
37. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
40. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
47. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
51. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
55. The products of human creativity.
60. The cry made by sheep.
61. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
62. A genus of Scolopacidae.
63. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
64. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
65. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
66. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
2. Shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain.
3. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. Not divisible by two.
6. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
7. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
8. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
9. A small rounded gland-like structure.
10. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
11. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
12. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
20. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. Advanced in years.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. American novelist (1909-1955).
30. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
31. River in eastern Asia.
33. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
35. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
36. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
44. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
50. The season when the leaves fall from the trees.
52. In bed.
53. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
54. Material used to daub walls.
56. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
57. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
58. Being two more than fifty.
59. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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