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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
5. Used of physical coldness.
9. A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects).
13. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
14. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
15. Type genus of the Ranidae.
16. A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis).
18. Occupied or in the control of.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
21. All the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins.
23. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
26. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
27. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
30. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
32. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
37. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. Having the head uncovered.
42. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. Covered with paving material.
53. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
54. A very light brown.
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
57. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
59. An elaborate party (often outdoors).
60. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
61. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
62. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
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1. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
2. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
3. The basic unit of money in Iran.
4. Identified with a band especially around a leg.
5. Flavored with sour orange peel.
6. Beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set.
7. 16 ounces.
8. An uproarious party.
9. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
10. Ground snakes.
11. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
12. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
17. Water soaked soil.
20. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
22. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
24. An informal term for a father.
25. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
28. A city in east central Texas.
29. The act of scanning.
31. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
35. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
36. A four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine.
37. 16 ounces.
38. Common Indian weaverbird.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. Someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice.
45. English monk and scholar (672-735).
47. A Loloish language.
48. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
49. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
50. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. In bed.
55. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
58. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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