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1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. Any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor.
9. (British) Street lined with building that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings.
13. The month following March and preceding May.
14. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
15. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
16. The cry made by sheep.
17. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
18. Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness.
19. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
21. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
25. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
26. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
29. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
35. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
36. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
39. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
40. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
42. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. Very small.
49. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
52. Tag the base runner to get him out.
55. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
57. A port city in southwestern Iran.
59. Lacking self-confidence.
60. (archaic) Of persons.
63. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
64. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
65. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
66. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. Fill to satisfaction.
5. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
6. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
7. Extremely pleasing.
8. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
9. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
10. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).
11. Band or rope made of twisted twigs or stems.
12. An indication of potential opportunity.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
23. A bachelor's degree in science.
24. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
27. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
28. A French abbot.
32. A fraudulent business scheme.
33. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
34. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
37. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
38. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. A thrusting blow with a knife.
46. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
48. Lower in esteem.
50. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
51. Common Indian weaverbird.
53. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
54. Type genus of the Anatidae.
56. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
58. 10 grams.
61. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
62. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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