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1. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
4. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
9. Strike sharply.
13. Towards the side away from the wind.
14. Obvious and dull.
15. Time during which some action is awaited.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. Formally making a person known to another or to the public.
18. A city in northern India.
19. By bad luck.
21. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
25. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
26. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
28. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
30. Any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum.
34. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
37. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
38. Jordan's port.
39. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
45. The vein in the center of a leaf.
48. A vigorous blow.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. 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.
56. A small island.
60. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
61. A condition requiring relief.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
65. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another.
66. United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935).
67. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
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1. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
2. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
3. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
4. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
5. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
6. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
7. A wrapped container.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
9. A festival featuring African-American culture.
10. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
11. Affected manners intended to impress others.
12. A major god.
20. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
22. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
24. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
27. The basic unit of money in Albania.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
33. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
35. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
36. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
40. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
41. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
44. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
46. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
47. Having a tone of a reed instrument.
51. A city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal.
53. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
54. God of death.
55. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
57. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
58. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
59. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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