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1. Standard temperature and pressure.
4. A young unmarried woman.
10. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
13. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
14. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
19. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. A tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs.
34. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
36. A periodic paperback publication.
37. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
43. A large fleet.
47. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
51. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
54. A human limb.
55. A unit of pressure.
59. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
61. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
62. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
63. (botany) Especially of leaves.
64. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
3. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
6. (informal) Roused to anger.
7. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
8. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
9. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
11. A French abbot.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. Common Indian weaverbird.
24. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
26. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
27. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
29. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. Extremely pleasing.
33. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
44. (British) A local tax on property (usually used in the plural).
45. United States playwright (born in 1947).
46. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
48. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
52. South African term for `boss'.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. A light touch or stroke.
57. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
58. A castrated tomcat.
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