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1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
5. Disabled in the feet or legs.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. Using speech rather than writing.
17. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
18. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. Divulge information or secrets.
23. Tag the base runner to get him out.
24. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
25. Lower in esteem.
27. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
30. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
32. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
34. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
41. A festival featuring African-American culture.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
49. Scandinavian punch made of claret and aquavit with spices and raisins and orange peel and sugar.
51. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
55. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
57. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
58. God of fire.
60. The bill in a restaurant.
61. English monk and scholar (672-735).
62. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
63. (Babylonian) The sky god.
64. In operation or operational.
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1. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
2. Not widely known.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
5. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
6. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
7. 1 species.
8. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
9. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
10. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
11. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
12. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. Capital and largest city of Yugoslavia.
28. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
29. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. The cry made by sheep.
35. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
39. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
42. Be abundant or plentiful.
43. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
44. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
45. Feeling mild pleasurable excitement.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
48. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
50. Balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine.
52. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
53. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
54. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
56. A rapid bustling commotion.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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