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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
5. Being of use or service.
10. A light touch or stroke.
13. An elaborate song for solo voice.
14. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Any small compartment.
17. A discrete unit of living matter.
18. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
21. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
27. North American rat snakes.
31. 36th President of the United States.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A city of central China.
37. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
39. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
42. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
43. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
44. Not fed.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
49. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Cause to be embarrassed.
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
59. Wild and domestic cattle.
62. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
63. (informal) Of the highest quality.
64. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
65. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. Of or relating to or involving an area.
3. A small stream.
4. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
5. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
6. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
7. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
8. The number of lines in a piece of printed material.
9. Informal terms for a meal.
10. An informal term for a father.
11. God of fire.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. The second largest city in Tunisia.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
28. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
29. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
30. A town in north central Oklahoma.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
38. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
40. Not final or absolute.
41. A Balkan republic in southeastern Europe.
45. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
47. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
48. Lower in esteem.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. Indicating the most important performer or role.
54. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
56. A licensed medical practitioner.
57. British informal term.
58. Black tropical American cuckoo.
60. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
61. Informal terms for a mother.
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