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1. Rate of revolution of a motor.
4. Lower in esteem.
9. Among the largest bony fish.
13. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
14. Any monetary aid.
15. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
16. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
18. An elaborate song for solo voice.
19. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
20. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
21. Remaining after all deductions.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. A doctor's degree in education.
29. Foul with waste matter.
35. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. A large fleet.
44. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
50. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
53. Not only so, but.
56. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
59. (informal) Roused to anger.
62. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
63. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
64. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
65. An informal term for a father.
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1. A liquid preparation used on wet hair to it a tint.
2. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
3. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
4. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
5. German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992).
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. A state of agitated irritation.
8. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
10. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
11. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
17. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
22. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
31. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
32. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
33. A resource.
34. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
36. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
37. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
38. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
49. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
51. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
52. A female domestic.
54. The cry made by sheep.
55. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
57. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
58. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
60. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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