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1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
4. Transient cessation of respiration.
9. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
15. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
16. A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it.
18. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
19. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
20. In bed.
22. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A port city in southwestern Iran.
34. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
36. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
39. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. By bad luck.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. The eighth month of the civil year.
47. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
50. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
54. A resident of Idaho.
57. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
59. A master's degree in business.
60. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
61. A city of southeastern Mexico.
63. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
64. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
65. Supplied with or powered by fuel.
66. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
2. An elaborate song for solo voice.
3. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
6. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
7. The square of a body of any size of type.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
10. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
11. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
17. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
24. An unofficial association of people or groups.
25. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
27. Bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins.
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
33. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
35. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
40. The supreme commander of a fleet.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A fraudulent business scheme.
46. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch.
48. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).
49. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
51. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
52. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
53. A man who is a stupid fool.
55. A French abbot.
56. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
58. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
62. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
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