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1. A wine bottle made of leather.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. An informal term for a father.
13. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
14. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
18. Using speech rather than writing.
19. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
20. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
21. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
22. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
24. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
27. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
30. An industrial city in the European part of Russia.
33. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
34. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
36. A Mid-Atlantic state.
37. Popular dance music of Brazil.
39. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
42. By bad luck.
43. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
44. The basic unit of money in Indonesia.
46. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
49. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
53. A naturally occurring weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary.
58. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
60. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
64. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
65. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
66. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
67. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An endorsement.
3. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
4. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
5. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
6. Become ground down or deteriorate.
7. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. An unimaginably large amount.
10. Having a woven pattern.
11. Type genus of the Anatidae.
12. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
23. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
25. (British) A form of football played with an oval ball.
26. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
28. The basic unit of money in Iran.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. The content of cognition.
32. Not only so, but.
35. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
38. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
40. Pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine.
41. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
45. A republic in western South America.
47. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
50. Lacking excess flesh.
51. A city in northern India.
52. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
53. A Mid-Atlantic state.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
56. A quantity of no importance.
57. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
59. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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