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1. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
4. From fermented juice of black morello cherries.
10. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. The first event in a series.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
18. The dressed hairy coat of a mammal.
19. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
20. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
21. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
23. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
25. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
28. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
38. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
39. (informal) Exceptionally good.
42. An accountant certified by the state.
44. An informal term for a father.
46. A distinguished female operatic singer.
48. Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do.
51. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
55. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
56. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
59. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
60. The force of workers available.
61. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
63. A light touch or stroke.
64. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
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1. The quantity a cask will hold.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
4. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
5. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
6. Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility).
7. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
8. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
9. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
10. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
11. Acting like a clown or buffoon.
12. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
17. A genus of Ploceidae.
22. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
24. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
26. A blind god.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
33. Extremely pleasing.
34. Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground.
37. The act of scanning.
40. A number that is added to another number (the augend).
41. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
47. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
49. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
50. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
51. A state in northwestern North America.
52. Located on a side.
53. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
54. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
57. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
58. The bill in a restaurant.
62. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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