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1. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
4. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
10. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
13. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
14. Away from the mouth or oral region.
15. Of southern Europe.
16. Prevent from being seen or discovered.
18. One of a family of granular intrusive rocks.
20. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
21. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
23. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx.
26. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
29. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
42. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
43. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
47. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
53. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
56. Minor or subordinate.
58. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
61. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
62. An honorary arts degree.
63. Using speech rather than writing.
64. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
65. Stir up or tend.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
2. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
3. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC).
4. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. (electricity) Pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
9. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
10. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
11. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
12. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
17. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
19. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
22. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
24. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
25. Of or like a cecum.
27. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
28. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
30. An unofficial association of people or groups.
31. An informal term for a father.
35. Jordan's port.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
39. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
40. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
41. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
46. United States film actor who played tough heroes (1907-1979).
48. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
49. A state in New England.
51. Of or being the lowest female voice.
52. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
57. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
59. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
60. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
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