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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. A flexible container with a single opening.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
18. Castrated male horse.
19. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
21. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
22. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
29. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
30. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
34. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
36. Small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears.
38. Jordan's port.
41. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
42. Common Indian weaverbird.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. A New England state.
47. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. A port city in southwestern Iran.
65. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
66. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
67. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
68. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. With no effort to conceal.
4. Found along western Atlantic coast.
5. Before noon.
6. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
7. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
8. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
9. A wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip.
10. A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core.
11. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
17. Dearly loved.
20. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
23. A light touch or stroke.
25. A person trained to compete in sports.
27. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
28. Distant in either space or time.
31. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
32. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
33. The capital and largest city of Japan.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
43. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
45. English monk and scholar (672-735).
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. (informal) Exceptionally good.
54. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
55. An informal term for a father.
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. (informal) Roused to anger.
61. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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