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1. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
5. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
10. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
13. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
14. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
17. Anything that serves as an enticement.
19. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
22. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
32. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
35. A state in New England.
37. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
38. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
44. United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958).
45. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
48. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
50. One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
60. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
61. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
62. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
64. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
65. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
66. A large fleet.
67. (informal) Roused to anger.
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1. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
2. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
3. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
4. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
5. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
8. A case for containing a set of articles.
9. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
10. The wife of a sheik.
11. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
12. Advanced in years.
18. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
31. Heal or recover.
33. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
39. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
41. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
47. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. Jordan's port.
51. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
52. A state in northwestern North America.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
55. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
56. God of love and erotic desire.
57. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
59. Informal terms for a mother.
63. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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