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1. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
10. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
14. An informal conversation.
15. (British) A title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight.
16. Having the head uncovered.
17. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
22. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
23. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
26. Informal terms for a mother.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
29. Stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug.
32. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Take in solid food.
39. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
40. Type genus of the Anatidae.
41. God of wealth and love.
43. 1 species.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. The state of being unsure of something.
53. Converted totally or partly into ions.
57. The basic unit of money in Peru.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
62. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
63. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
64. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
65. Jordan's port.
66. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. Socialist who wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895).
7. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
8. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
9. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
10. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties.
11. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
12. Jordan's port.
18. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
20. An informal term for a father.
21. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
24. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
25. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Not only so, but.
33. Order by virtue of superior authority.
34. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. The bill in a restaurant.
42. A Loloish language.
44. A landlocked principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.
45. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. Light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity).
49. Any plant of the genus Inula.
51. Belonging to some prior time.
52. A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.
54. A branch of the Tai languages.
55. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. The cry made by sheep.
59. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
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