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1. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
4. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
10. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. Something that remunerates.
14. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled.
18. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
19. A place where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
29. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
33. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. The residue that remains when something is burned.
40. The products of human creativity.
41. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
42. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Unwisely talking too much.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
57. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
58. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
59. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
60. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
61. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
62. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
63. The basic unit of money in Albania.
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1. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. The eighth month of the civil year.
4. A condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed.
5. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
6. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. Relating to the Lamaze method of childbirth.
8. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
9. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
11. Type genus of the Ranidae.
12. By bad luck.
20. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
24. Lower in esteem.
25. A doctor's degree in religion.
27. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
28. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
30. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
31. Rounded like an egg.
32. Offering fun and gaiety.
34. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
35. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
38. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
39. A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
43. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
45. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
47. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
48. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
49. Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge.
51. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
52. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
53. Noisy talk.
55. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
56. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
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