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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
5. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
9. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
13. A primeval personification of air and breath.
14. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. With no effort to conceal.
17. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
18. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
19. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
25. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
28. An Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice.
32. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
33. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
34. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
35. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
36. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
39. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
41. Of heavy boots.
45. 1 species.
51. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
54. Singing jazz.
55. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
56. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
58. An associate degree in nursing.
59. Jordan's port.
61. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
62. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
65. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
66. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
67. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
3. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
4. Make attractive or lovable.
5. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
6. Black tropical American cuckoo.
7. Any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm).
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. An elaborate song for solo voice.
11. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
12. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
20. The cry made by sheep.
21. The highest level or degree attainable.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
27. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
29. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. The month following July and preceding September.
37. (prefix) Between or among or in the midst of.
38. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
43. The capital and largest city of Zambia.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
52. Distant in either space or time.
53. God of death.
54. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
57. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
60. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
64. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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