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1. A doctor's degree in education.
4. Affect with wonder.
9. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
13. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
14. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
15. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
16. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
18. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
19. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
23. A blind god.
25. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
26. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
29. An honorary arts degree.
33. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
36. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
38. Highly excited.
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
45. A genus of Ploceidae.
48. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in California.
51. Of or relating to or involving an area.
52. Having toothlike projections in the margin.
56. Someone who has won first place in a competition.
58. The agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered.
59. Temporary military shelter.
60. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
63. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
64. The residue that remains when something is burned.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread.
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1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
2. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
3. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. Covered with paving material.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. (Middle East) An ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup.
8. Late time of life.
9. Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape.
10. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
11. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
12. Having been read.
17. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
21. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
22. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
24. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
30. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
31. Singing jazz.
32. An informal term for a father.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. A city in southeastern Spain.
41. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
42. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
44. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
46. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
47. The event of dying or departure from life.
49. A doctor's degree in optometry.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. A city in northwestern Syria.
54. A bluish shade of green.
55. Suggestive of the supernatural.
57. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
61. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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