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1. A person active in party politics.
4. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid.
13. (informal) Of the highest quality.
14. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
15. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
16. A fraudulent business scheme.
18. An agenda of things to do.
19. A genus of Mustelidae.
20. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
21. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
23. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
24. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
26. One thousand grams.
28. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
33. English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1872-1966).
35. An informal term for a father.
36. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
37. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
39. A light touch or stroke.
40. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
43. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
47. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
54. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
56. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
57. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
58. Jordan's port.
61. Black tropical American cuckoo.
62. Made of fir or pine.
63. A genus of Ploceidae.
64. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
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1. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
2. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
3. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. 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.
8. Chief port of Yemen.
9. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
10. The habitation of wild animals.
11. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
12. A cooperative unit.
17. The vein in the center of a leaf.
22. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
25. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
27. The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed.
29. Any of various units of capacity.
30. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
32. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
34. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
38. A festival featuring African-American culture.
39. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
41. God of death.
42. Before noon.
44. Type genus of the Amiidae.
45. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
49. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
50. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit.
53. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
55. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
59. Unknown god.
60. A bachelor's degree in religion.
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