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1. Speaking a Slavic language.
5. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
10. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
13. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
14. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
15. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
16. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
17. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
19. A state in midwestern United States.
20. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
24. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
26. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
32. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
35. (informal) Roused to anger.
36. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A primeval personification of air and breath.
42. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
43. A share of something.
45. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
49. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
51. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. A language group of the Hokan family.
59. Extremely pleasing.
61. The innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel).
63. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
64. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
65. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
66. An audiotape recording of sound.
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1. Not in good physical or mental health.
2. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
5. Affectedly dramatic.
6. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
7. A festival featuring African-American culture.
8. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
9. Black tropical American cuckoo.
10. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.
25. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
27. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
29. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. (informal) Very tired.
37. (dentistry) A filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
40. Assembly possessing high legislative powers.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
45. A state in midwestern United States.
46. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
51. A state in midwestern United States.
52. In bed.
53. A Loloish language.
54. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
57. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
58. The cry made by sheep.
60. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
62. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
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