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1. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
4. (botany) Of some seeds.
10. (British) Your grandmother.
13. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
14. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
15. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
16. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. Any of various small biting flies.
19. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
20. A blind god.
21. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. The eleventh month of the civil year.
25. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.
28. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
29. Grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers.
32. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
34. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.
41. A large fleet.
44. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
45. Mites and ticks.
46. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
47. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
48. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
60. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
65. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
66. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
67. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
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1. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
2. A city in east central Texas.
3. Toward the mouth or oral region.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. Solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth.
7. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. An audiotape recording of sound.
10. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
11. Jordan's port.
12. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
17. (informal) Exceptionally good.
24. Included seven times in every 19 years.
26. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
27. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
30. A genus of Mustelidae.
31. A visual presentation showing how something works.
33. A low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat v 1.
36. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
38. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
39. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
40. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
42. A French abbot.
43. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
49. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
50. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
55. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
57. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
58. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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