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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
10. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
13. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
14. A group of followers hired to applaud at a performance.
15. Fiddler crabs.
16. The basic unit of money in Iran.
18. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
19. Black tropical American cuckoo.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
23. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
26. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
27. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
30. Not only so, but.
33. Extremely pleasing.
35. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
37. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
39. The month following July and preceding September.
41. The Holy Roman Emperors or the Emperors of Austria or Germany until 1918.
43. A viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person.
45. Source of a tough elastic wood.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. A quantity of no importance.
54. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
56. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
59. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
63. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
64. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
65. Large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic.
66. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
7. Jordan's port.
8. A genus of Mustelidae.
9. The fatty flesh of eel.
10. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
11. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
12. Set down according to a plan.
17. Wood of a larch tree.
22. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
25. A small drum.
28. American novelist (1909-1955).
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
31. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
32. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
34. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
38. Make nonmagnetic.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
40. A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement.
41. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
42. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
52. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
57. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
58. An accidental happening.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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