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1. A tight-fitting headdress.
4. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
10. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. Someone who skates.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. Found along western Atlantic coast.
18. An informal term for a father.
19. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
20. (used especially of glances) Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.
21. Being one more than fifty.
23. The sacred city of Lamaism.
26. The square of a body of any size of type.
27. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
31. Small fatty fish usually canned.
36. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
37. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
40. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. A unit of pressure.
45. Jordan's port.
47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
59. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
60. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
61. Negation of a word or group of words.
64. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
65. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
66. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
67. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
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1. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
2. Cause to be embarrassed.
3. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
4. A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake).
5. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
6. A boy or man.
7. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
11. Type genus of the Ranidae.
12. By bad luck.
17. Being derived from.
22. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
24. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
25. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
29. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. A Hindu prince or king in India.
34. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. The seventh and last day of the week.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. A French abbot.
42. The cry made by sheep.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
49. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
50. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
53. A fit of shivering.
54. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
55. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
56. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
58. Your general store of remembered information.
62. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
63. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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