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1. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
4. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
10. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
13. Towards the side away from the wind.
14. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
15. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
16. Jordan's port.
18. A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food.
19. The airforce of Great Britain.
20. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
21. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
23. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
30. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
34. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
35. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
38. The longest division of geological time.
39. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
42. A lack of vitality.
46. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
48. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
55. A town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River.
58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
60. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
63. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
64. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
65. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
66. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. By bad luck.
2. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
3. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
4. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
5. Informal terms for a mother.
6. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
7. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
8. An oil port in southern Iraq.
9. Absence of gastric juices (partial or complete).
10. A three-tone Chadic language.
11. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
12. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
17. God of wealth and love.
22. A decree that prohibits something.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
28. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
32. Be agitated.
33. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
36. That is to say.
37. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
40. A resource.
41. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
43. A very light brown.
44. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
45. A light touch or stroke.
47. A native-born Israeli.
49. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
53. A French abbot.
54. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
56. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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