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1. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
4. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
9. The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
15. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
16. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
17. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
18. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
19. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A thrusting blow with a knife.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A nation in northern North America.
35. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
36. A master's degree in business.
40. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
45. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
46. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
48. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
52. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
59. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
61. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
65. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
66. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
67. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. Encountered generally especially at the present time.
5. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
6. 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.
7. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
8. (informal) Of the highest quality.
9. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
10. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
11. A master's degree in library science.
12. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
20. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
22. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
23. A fraudulent business scheme.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
27. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
30. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
31. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. At or constituting a border or edge.
37. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
38. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
39. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A light touch or stroke.
47. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. The habitation of wild animals.
51. The capital of Western Samoa.
53. In bed.
54. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
57. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
58. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
63. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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