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1. Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324).
5. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
9. A course of conduct.
13. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
14. American novelist (1909-1955).
15. A Loloish language.
16. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
17. An informal term for a father.
18. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
19. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
25. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
41. A Russian river.
42. A white powder (LiCO3) used in manufacturing glass and ceramics and as a drug.
43. Flesh of a castrated male chicken.
47. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
49. A source of danger.
52. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
56. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
57. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
60. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
61. An awkward stupid person.
62. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
63. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
4. A severe or trying experience.
5. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
8. Seed of a pea plant.
9. The basic unit of money in Macao.
10. Jordan's port.
11. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
12. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
20. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
21. United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933).
23. Top part of an apron.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A rapid bustling commotion.
28. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
30. A quantity that is added.
31. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
33. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
34. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
37. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
38. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
39. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
40. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
41. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
44. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
45. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. 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.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. God of love and erotic desire.
53. The cry made by sheep.
54. Used in combination to denote the middle.
55. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
56. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
58. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
59. Half the width of an em.
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