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1. The sound made by corvine birds.
4. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
10. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
13. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
14. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
15. A pass between mountain peaks.
16. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
17. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
19. A tributary of the Ohio River.
21. A port city in southwestern Iran.
23. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
25. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
42. The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary.
50. (physics) A deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.
52. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
53. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
54. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
58. An enclosed space.
59. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
60. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
61. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
62. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
3. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
4. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
5. First in order of importance.
6. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
9. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
11. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
12. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. An informal term for a father.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. A formal expression of praise.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
32. Used of a single unit or thing.
33. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
35. The act of scanning.
36. A blind god.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
43. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
44. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
45. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
51. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
57. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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