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1. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
5. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
10. Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle.
13. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
14. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
17. Offering fun and gaiety.
19. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
21. English mathematician and physicist.
23. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
24. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
25. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
26. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
29. An uproarious party.
31. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
37. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
41. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
44. Of or relating to Fabianism.
46. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
47. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
48. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
51. Traveling on horseback.
54. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
55. A written proposal or reminder.
56. A genus of Ploceidae.
60. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
63. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
64. Toward the mouth or oral region.
65. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Bantu language.
2. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
3. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness.
4. A large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression.
5. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
6. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
7. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
8. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
9. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
10. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
11. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
12. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
18. A festival featuring African-American culture.
20. (informal) Exceptionally good.
22. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
27. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
28. An associate degree in applied science.
30. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
38. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
39. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
42. In a foreign country.
43. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
45. A state in the western United States.
46. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. Perceive sound.
53. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
54. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
57. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
58. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
59. Used of a single unit or thing.
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