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1. Extremely pleasing.
4. A set whose members are members of another set.
10. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
13. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
14. An authoritative person who divines the future.
15. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
17. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
18. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
19. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
24. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
27. Tag the base runner to get him out.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
31. 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.
32. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
35. An associate degree in applied science.
39. Characteristic of a mob.
41. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
42. Goddess of fate.
45. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
47. At full speed.
50. The cry made by sheep.
51. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
54. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. Having removed clothing.
61. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
62. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
63. Convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. United States film maker (1896-1973).
2. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
5. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
6. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
7. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
8. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
9. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
10. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
11. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
23. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
25. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
26. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
29. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
30. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. Perceptible especially by the eye.
38. Type genus of the family Mustelidae.
39. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
40. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
43. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
44. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
46. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. A master's degree in library science.
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. Either extremity of something that has length.
56. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
59. Being five more than one hundred.
60. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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