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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. Type genus of the Dipodidae.
9. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
15. A slender double-reed instrument.
16. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
17. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
18. Give over.
19. By bad luck.
21. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
22. Imperial moths.
24. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
25. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. A manner of performance.
29. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
35. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Having leadership guidance.
40. (Old Testament) Samson's Philistine mistress who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
45. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
47. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
50. Supply with battlements.
53. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
57. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
59. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
60. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
61. Away from the mouth or oral region.
64. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
65. A doctor's degree in education.
66. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
67. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
5. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
6. Type genus of the Pezizaceae.
7. Fiddler crabs.
8. A reason for wanting something done.
9. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
10. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
11. A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks.
12. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
20. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. An informal term for a father.
30. A genus of Ploceidae.
31. (informal) Of the highest quality.
32. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
34. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
36. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
38. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
42. Held in slavery.
43. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
49. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
51. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
52. A town in north central Oklahoma.
54. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
55. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
56. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
58. Any thick messy substance.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
63. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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