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1. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
5. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
10. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
13. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
14. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
15. Black tropical American cuckoo.
16. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
17. A homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the streets.
18. Of inferior or mixed breed.
19. An inflammatory swelling or sore.
21. Felt hat with a creased crown.
23. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
29. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
32. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
34. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
37. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. Jordan's port.
47. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
48. Music performed for dancing the polka.
52. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
54. Occurring during the middle of the week.
56. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
58. A master's degree in business.
59. A local computer network for communication between computers.
60. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
62. Tag the base runner to get him out.
63. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
64. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
2. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
3. A meeting for boat races.
4. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
5. The month following July and preceding September.
6. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
7. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
8. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
9. (zoology) Relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida.
10. A city in east central Texas.
11. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
12. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
20. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
30. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
33. A state in New England.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
39. Covered with paving material.
40. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
43. A poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare.
44. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.
45. United States author (born 1932).
46. Pertaining to the forward part of a vessel.
49. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Jordan's port.
53. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
55. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
57. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
61. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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