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1. A periodic paperback publication.
4. Edible viscera of a butchered animal.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
14. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
15. (British) Informal term for information.
16. A large number or amount.
18. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
19. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
27. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
29. The hole that an anchor rope passes through.
33. A kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans.
36. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
38. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
40. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
43. Lack of sight.
45. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
49. At or constituting a border or edge.
50. A shade of blue tinged with green.
54. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
56. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
57. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
59. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
64. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
65. Jordan's port.
66. An informal term for a father.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. In bed.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. Taken or to be taken at random.
7. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
8. Relating to or accompanying birth.
9. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. (informal) Very tired.
12. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
17. Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
24. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
25. A card game for 2 players.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
30. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
31. Singing jazz.
32. Posing no difficulty.
34. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
35. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
39. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
41. A motley assortment of things.
42. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. American Revolutionary patriot.
47. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
48. Short and fat.
51. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
53. Fallow deer.
55. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
58. A resource.
61. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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