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1. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
5. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
10. Be obliged to pay or repay.
13. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
14. The brightest star in Cygnus.
15. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
16. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
18. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
19. A doctor's degree in education.
20. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
21. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
23. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A Hindu prince or king in India.
33. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
35. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
37. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
40. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
41. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
46. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
50. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. The sixth month of the civil year.
59. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
60. Extremely pleasing.
63. A unit of pressure.
64. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
65. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
66. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
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1. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
2. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
3. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
4. 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.
5. A doctor's degree in optometry.
6. The month following August and preceding October.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
12. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
17. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. An associate degree in nursing.
27. An informal term for a father.
28. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
30. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
31. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
32. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
34. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
39. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. A light touch or stroke.
45. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
47. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
48. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
49. 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.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
57. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
58. A decree that prohibits something.
61. Being one more than one hundred.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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