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1. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
5. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
9. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
13. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
14. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
15. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
17. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
26. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
27. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
28. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
32. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
38. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
44. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
46. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain.
48. A port in southwestern Scotland.
51. Being five more than fifty.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil.
56. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
59. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
60. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
61. The Teutonic god of thunder.
64. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
65. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
66. Related on the mother's side.
67. Dearly loved.
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1. A city in northwestern Turkey.
2. Of or relating to the uvea of the eye.
3. Lacking excess flesh.
4. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
5. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
6. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
10. Remote and separate physically or socially.
11. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
12. A fraudulent business scheme.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. A dry white French wine (either still or sparkling) made in the Loire valley.
25. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
29. Unknown god.
30. Top part of an apron.
31. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
33. An audiotape recording of sound.
34. Slightly open.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. British informal term.
39. Come into existence.
40. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
46. Relating to only part of a whole.
47. (Greek mythology) The husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
48. English essayist (1775-1834).
49. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
50. Alcoholic drink from fermented cider (`cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usage for the fermented beverage).
52. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
55. Not in action or at work.
57. Tag the base runner to get him out.
58. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
62. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
63. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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