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1. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
4. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
13. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
15. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
16. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
18. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
19. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
20. In bed.
22. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
23. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
34. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
35. A light touch or stroke.
37. A native of ancient Troy.
38. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
41. (informal) Of the highest quality.
43. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
44. The sixth month of the civil year.
46. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
51. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
53. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
55. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
56. An associate degree in applied science.
60. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
61. A form of address for a married woman.
62. Opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded.
64. Fasten by sewing.
65. (Babylonian) The sky god.
66. A deep bow.
67. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
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1. An ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center.
2. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
3. The capital of Mali.
4. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
5. How long something has existed.
6. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
7. The square of a body of any size of type.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
10. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
11. Common Indian weaverbird.
12. Type genus of the Anatidae.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. An informal term for a father.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A true bug.
29. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
30. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
31. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
32. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
33. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
40. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
42. Enchanter's nightshade.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. Cause to be embarrassed.
49. Greek mythology.
50. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
52. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
57. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
58. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
63. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
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