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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. (of hair) Made tidy with a comb.
10. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
13. The habitation of wild animals.
14. A narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
17. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. In bed.
27. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
36. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
37. The sound made by a pigeon v 1.
38. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
39. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
42. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
44. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
46. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. A boy or man.
60. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
61. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
63. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
64. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
65. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
66. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
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1. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
4. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. Tropical Asian starlings.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. A Mid-Atlantic state.
10. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
11. Marked by the reception of pay.
12. Among the largest bony fish.
18. An informal term for a father.
20. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
22. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
28. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
29. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
30. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
33. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
35. An opening into or through something.
40. How long something has existed.
41. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
47. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
48. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
50. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
51. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. The twelfth month of the civil year.
54. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
55. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
57. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
58. (informal) Of the highest quality.
62. Before noon.
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