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1. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
4. A bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt.
10. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
13. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
14. The wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers.
15. The basic unit of money in Romania.
16. Suggestive of the supernatural.
18. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
19. How long something has existed.
20. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
22. Brought together into a group or crowd.
24. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
26. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
27. A communication system using fiber optic cables.
30. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
31. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
37. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
43. An accountant certified by the state.
45. Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits.
49. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. The square of a body of any size of type.
55. The cry made by sheep.
56. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
59. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
61. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
62. Squash bugs.
63. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
64. An informal term for a father.
65. A populous province in northeastern China.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
3. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
4. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
7. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
8. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
9. The act of relaying something.
10. A loud resonant repeating noise.
11. A desert in southern Israel.
12. Leather with a napped surface.
17. Goddess of fertility.
21. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
23. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
25. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
28. Rounded like an egg.
29. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
34. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
36. Before noon.
38. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
39. Administer baptism to.
40. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
44. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
46. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
50. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
51. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
57. Used of a single unit or thing.
58. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
60. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
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