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1. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
4. A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points.
10. The sign language used in the United States.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
14. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
15. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
18. Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct liquids or gases.
19. A person active in party politics.
20. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
22. God of wealth and love.
24. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
26. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
27. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
30. An informal term for a father.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
44. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
46. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
47. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
55. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
60. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
61. A port city in southwestern Iran.
63. (informal) Of the highest quality.
64. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
65. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
66. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
7. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
8. Tag the base runner to get him out.
9. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
10. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
11. (Japanese) A form of chess played on a board of 81 squares.
12. Of a pale purple color.
17. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
21. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
23. A blind god.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
28. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
29. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. In bed.
35. Anything that serves as an enticement.
36. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
37. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
39. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
40. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
41. A flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it.
42. Tag the base runner to get him out.
45. A Loloish language.
49. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
50. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
56. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
57. A small piece of cloth.
59. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
62. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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