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1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. A brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes.
10. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
14. Make less active or intense.
15. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
16. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
17. A Russian river.
19. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
21. 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.
22. A genus of Indriidae.
25. A light touch or stroke.
28. The superior of an abbey of monks.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
36. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
39. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. An enclosed space.
59. In ancient Semitic folklore.
61. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
62. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
63. (neuroscience) Of or relating to or resembling an axon.
64. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
2. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
3. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
4. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
5. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
6. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
7. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
10. Largest known toad species.
11. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
12. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
20. The eleventh month of the civil year.
23. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
24. Found along western Atlantic coast.
26. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. Common Indian weaverbird.
30. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
31. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal.
33. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
34. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
35. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
42. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
44. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
45. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
46. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
47. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
49. The heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails.
50. A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth.
52. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
54. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
55. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
56. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
60. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
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