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1. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
4. Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
10. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. An industrial city in central Japan on southern Honshu.
15. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
16. A doctor's degree in education.
17. Positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger.
18. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
19. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
22. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
33. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
35. An island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea.
37. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. A mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing.
53. The airforce of Great Britain.
58. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
59. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
60. Get or find back.
62. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
65. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
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1. A quantity of no importance.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. Not invited or requested.
5. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
6. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
7. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
8. Opinion or judgment.
9. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
10. Largest known toad species.
11. Young sheep.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
25. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A master's degree in fine arts.
29. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
30. A desert in central Asia.
31. One thousandth of a second.
32. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. 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.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
42. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
43. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. A genus of Platalea.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
51. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
52. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
54. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
55. 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).
56. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
57. Gone by.
61. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
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