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1. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
5. Jordan's port.
10. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A festival featuring African-American culture.
18. Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type.
20. Make attractive or lovable.
21. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
25. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
26. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. Arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments.
41. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
42. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
48. African mahogany trees.
52. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
53. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
54. Any material used especially to protect something.
57. The sister of your father or mother.
59. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
60. (Old Testament) A youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC).
63. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
64. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
65. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
66. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
2. The first light of day.
3. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
4. A region of northeastern Italy on the Adriatic.
5. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
6. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
11. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
12. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
17. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
19. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
30. Fraught with extreme danger.
31. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. God of death.
35. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
36. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
37. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
39. United States comic actor in silent films.
40. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. A linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons.
46. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
47. Treated with contempt.
49. A special way of doing something.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
55. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
56. The fatty flesh of eel.
58. A city in the European part of Russia.
61. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
62. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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