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1. (informal) A bunch.
5. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
10. The sound made by a gentle blow.
13. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
14. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
15. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
16. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
17. Of or relating to near the ear.
19. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
21. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A state in the eastern United States.
30. Not fanciful or imaginative.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. Straighten up or out.
40. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
42. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
43. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
49. Commercially important fish of the North American Pacific coast.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
55. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
59. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
60. Without moral standards or principles.
61. (Sumerian) Sun god.
62. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
63. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
64. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
2. Telephone line (Wide Area Telephone Service).
3. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. A branch of the Tai languages.
6. Take in solid food.
7. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
8. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
9. Before noon.
10. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
11. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
12. A city in Veneto.
18. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
20. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
22. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
24. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
27. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
31. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
32. 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.
33. Type genus of the Musaceae.
34. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
35. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
36. A doctor's degree in education.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Become imbued.
44. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
48. A tight-fitting headdress.
50. Avatar of Vishnu.
51. Offering fun and gaiety.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
56. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
57. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
58. A partially opened flower.
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