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1. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
4. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
10. Black tropical American cuckoo.
13. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
14. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
15. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
16. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
17. A relation that provides the foundation for something.
19. Having removed clothing.
22. A soft silvery metallic element.
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
25. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Great coolness and composure under strain.
34. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
38. In bed.
40. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. Preserve a dead body.
49. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
53. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
56. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
57. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
60. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
61. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
62. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
63. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
64. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
65. Avatar of Vishnu.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
2. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
3. One thousandth of a second.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
6. A city in north central Morocco.
7. A genus of Scolopacidae.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
10. Jordan's port.
11. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
18. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
20. A clear oily brown solution of cresols in soap.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
27. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
28. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
30. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
31. English monk and scholar (672-735).
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
39. Large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers.
40. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
42. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
44. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
45. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
47. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
48. The sacred city of Lamaism.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A primeval personification of air and breath.
51. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
52. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
54. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
55. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
58. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
59. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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