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1. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
10. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
13. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
14. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
15. Something that remunerates.
16. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
17. (Babylonian and Assyrian) Goddess of love and fertility and war.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. A medium for oil-paints.
21. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Offering fun and gaiety.
29. Similar to the color of jade.
33. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
38. A trivial lie.
39. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
41. Jordan's port.
44. A form of address for a man.
45. A decree that prohibits something.
46. Lower in esteem.
49. Beads threaded on a string.
52. An informal term for a father.
54. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
58. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
61. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
62. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. On or toward the lee.
65. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
66. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle.
2. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
3. The ending of a series or sequence.
4. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
5. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
6. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
7. A long narrow excavation in the earth.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. The eighth month of the civil year.
20. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
22. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
34. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
35. 16 ounces.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
40. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems.
41. A long narrow excavation in the earth.
42. 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.
43. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
47. Obvious and dull.
48. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
50. Jordan's port.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
53. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
55. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
59. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
60. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
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