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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
10. A human limb.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. A resource.
17. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
19. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.
21. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
32. A persistently annoying person.
36. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
39. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. Freshwater green algae.
46. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
47. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
48. Before noon.
50. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
53. Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax.
58. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
61. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
62. Compete for something.
64. Bound or secured closely.
65. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
66. A particular environment or walk of life.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
4. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
5. Squash bugs.
6. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
7. Black tropical American cuckoo.
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
10. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
11. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
18. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
20. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A radioactive transuranic element.
28. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
29. Type genus of the Anatidae.
31. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
33. The twelfth month of the civil year.
34. Any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway.
35. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
37. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
38. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
40. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
43. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
50. An associate degree in nursing.
51. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
52. Food for domestic livestock.
54. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
55. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. An informal term for a father.
59. (Irish) The sea personified.
60. (informal) Of the highest quality.
63. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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