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1. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
4. French novelist.
10. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
13. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
14. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
17. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
19. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
21. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
22. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
23. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
32. A town in north central Oklahoma.
35. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
38. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
43. Delicacy highly prized in Japan but highly dangerous.
44. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
47. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
50. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
51. The cry made by sheep.
55. Usually large hard-shelled seed.
59. South African term for `boss'.
60. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
61. A ravine or gully in southern Asia.
63. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
64. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
65. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
66. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
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1. French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style (tight bodice and narrow waist and flowing pleated skirt) that became known as the New Look (1905-1957).
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
7. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
8. A large fleet.
9. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
10. A port city in southwestern Iran.
11. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
12. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
27. Either extremity of something that has length.
28. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. 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.
31. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. Being one more than two.
39. A master's degree in fine arts.
40. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. A light touch or stroke.
42. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
45. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
46. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
48. A Nilotic language.
49. A state in midwestern United States.
52. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
53. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
54. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
56. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
57. (Irish) Ancient Irish god (probably a god of the sun).
58. Not in good physical or mental health.
62. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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