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1. A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red.
5. Jordan's port.
10. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
13. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
14. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
15. An awkward stupid person.
16. Type genus of the Nepidae.
17. Divulge information or secrets.
19. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
21. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
23. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. Outer space as viewed from the earth.
27. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
31. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
34. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious.
35. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
39. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. The largest city and former capital of Turkey.
44. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
46. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
50. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. A position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable.
55. The act of scanning.
57. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
59. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
60. A port in southwestern Scotland.
63. A branch of the Tai languages.
64. In or of the month preceding the present one.
65. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. become turned or set on end.
3. Any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.
4. Oil palms.
5. State capital of New York.
6. Large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
10. The dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted.
11. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
12. The second largest city in Tunisia.
18. A town in central Belgium.
20. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
22. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
24. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. English monk and scholar (672-735).
30. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
32. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. At full speed.
37. Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929).
38. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
42. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
43. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
45. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
49. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
50. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
53. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
56. The products of human creativity.
58. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
61. A Mid-Atlantic state.
62. An associate degree in nursing.
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