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1. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Wool of the alpaca.
15. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
16. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
18. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
19. Tag the base runner to get him out.
20. Preserve a dead body.
22. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. The academic world.
28. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
30. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
31. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
36. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
38. A midwestern state in north central United States.
39. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
41. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. Of or like a cecum.
45. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
46. Someone whose business is advertising.
49. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
53. The act of scanning.
56. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
57. An associate degree in applied science.
60. An enclosed space.
61. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
62. (British) A dealer in textiles (especially silks).
63. The residue that remains when something is burned.
64. The fatty flesh of eel.
65. (combining form) Acting or functioning as a regent or ruler.
66. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
2. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
3. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
4. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
7. The cry made by sheep.
8. Grasshopper with short antennae.
9. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
10. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
11. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
12. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
17. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
21. New Zealand conifer.
23. Innumerable but many.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
33. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
37. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
40. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
42. A city and port in northern Jutland.
43. (psychology) An urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.
44. Strong and sharp.
47. Cause to go crazy.
48. (botany) Especially of leaves.
50. Of or in or relating to the nose.
51. Lower in esteem.
52. Russian country house.
54. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
55. On or toward the lee.
58. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
59. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
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