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1. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
4. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
9. Hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton.
13. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
14. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
15. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
16. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
17. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
18. (Greek mythology) Winged goddess of victory.
19. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
21. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
28. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
29. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
32. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
35. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
38. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
39. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
40. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
42. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
44. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
46. Type genus of the Nepidae.
47. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
49. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell.
57. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
62. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
63. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
64. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting.
65. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
66. Used of a single unit or thing.
67. An announcement containing information about a future event.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. In the Roman calendar.
2. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence.
7. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
8. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
9. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
10. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
11. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
12. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
20. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
22. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
24. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
25. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
27. The quantity contained in a keg.
30. A boy or man.
31. Largest known toad species.
33. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
34. A Loloish language.
36. A state in northwestern North America.
37. Obvious and dull.
41. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
44. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
45. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
48. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
51. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
52. A share of something.
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. God of love and erotic desire.
58. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
59. Range of what one can know or understand.
60. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
61. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
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