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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A river in southeastern France.
9. Something causes misery or death.
13. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
14. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
15. Toward the mouth or oral region.
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
18. An iconic mental representation.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
30. Make less visible or unclear.
33. A Mid-Atlantic state.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. Not reflecting light.
39. A master's degree in business.
41. An uproarious party.
43. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
45. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
46. A state in north central United States.
51. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
54. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
55. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
59. A compact mass.
60. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
61. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
62. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
63. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
64. Asian rat snakes.
65. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
66. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
5. The act of scanning.
6. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
7. Being connected or associated.
8. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
9. Large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers.
10. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
11. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
12. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
20. Material used to daub walls.
22. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. The superior of an abbey of monks.
28. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
29. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
31. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
32. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A region in central Italy.
40. Make sour or more sour.
42. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
43. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
44. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
47. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
48. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
49. Leafless East Indian vine.
50. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
57. A master's degree in fine arts.
58. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
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