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1. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.
5. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani.
10. Characteristic of a mob.
13. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
14. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
18. Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading.
20. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb.
22. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
34. Mild cream-colored Dutch cheese shaped in balls.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
38. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
39. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
43. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
45. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
47. English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784).
50. Obvious and dull.
54. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
55. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
58. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
59. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
60. Russian chess master who was world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Gary Kasparov (born in 1951).
62. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
63. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
64. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
65. A bachelor's degree in theology.
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1. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
4. United States writer (1871-1900).
5. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
6. A port in southwestern Scotland.
7. Being nine more than ninety.
8. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
9. The sixth month of the civil year.
10. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
11. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
17. Open to change.
19. (music) A notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated.
21. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
26. Not fed.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. A quantity of no importance.
32. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
40. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
41. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
42. The face of a timepiece.
44. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
46. 16 ounces.
48. Using speech rather than writing.
49. A standard or model or pattern regarded as typical.
51. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. Young sheep.
56. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
57. A unit of pain intensity.
61. A state in the eastern United States.
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