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1. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
5. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
10. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
13. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
14. American dramatist (1928- ).
15. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
17. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
18. Being six more than fifty.
19. Soviet statesman and head of state of the USSR (1875-1946).
21. Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator).
23. A medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase.
24. Remove from its packing.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
28. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
31. A state in southeastern United States.
35. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
40. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. A bar of sand.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
49. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
52. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
55. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
57. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
59. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
60. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
61. Read anew.
63. (informal) Roused to anger.
64. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
65. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913).
2. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
3. Any plant of the genus Inula.
4. Erect plant with small clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers of southwestern United States.
5. A fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal.
6. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
7. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
8. The terminal section of the alimentary canal.
9. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
10. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
11. Of or relating or belonging to a city.
12. A short light metallic sound.
20. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
29. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
30. In bed.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
34. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
38. A doctor's degree in education.
39. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
40. Of or relating or belonging to a city.
41. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
44. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
45. Greek mythology.
46. English monk and scholar (672-735).
48. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
49. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
50. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. An informal term for a father.
56. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
57. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
58. An enclosed space.
62. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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