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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A message that seems to convey no meaning.
9. Any of various small biting flies.
13. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
14. Related on the mother's side.
15. Type genus of the Ranidae.
16. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
17. A puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words.
18. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
19. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
21. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
23. A genus of European owls.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. A hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire.
27. Jordan's port.
29. The capital of Croatia.
32. Supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu.
36. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
39. God of the earth.
40. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
44. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
50. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
52. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
53. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
54. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
56. Twist or braid together, interlace.
59. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
60. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
61. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
62. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
63. The cry made by sheep.
64. An epic in Latin by Virgil.
65. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
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1. A Nilotic language.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
4. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
5. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
6. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
7. (Sumerian) Sun god.
8. Flat tableland with steep edges.
9. Studies of the formation of basic linguistic units.
10. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
11. Administer an oil or ointment to.
12. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
20. A blind god.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A state in northwestern North America.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. A desert in central Asia.
33. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
34. A Mid-Atlantic state.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921).
38. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
43. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
45. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
46. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
47. One of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers.
48. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
49. The friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC).
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. Being one more than one hundred.
55. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
57. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
58. Being two more than fifty.
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