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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. A male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel.
9. A male sovereign.
13. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
14. Tropical Asian starlings.
15. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
16. The basic unit of money in Iran.
18. A very light brown.
19. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. Type and sole genus of the family Menuridae.
22. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
25. A primeval personification of air and breath.
26. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
29. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
33. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy.
37. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
39. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
41. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
42. An official at a baseball game.
43. United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945).
45. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
48. The square of a body of any size of type.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
50. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
52. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
54. A proportion multiplied by 100.
58. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
60. Someone who rants and raves.
63. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
64. Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-gray bark of North America and Europe and Asia.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. Type genus of the Majidae.
67. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
68. A light touch or stroke.
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1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. Jordan's port.
4. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
5. The seed of the cereal grass.
6. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
9. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
10. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
11. (KNO3) Used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
12. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
17. Immature of its kind.
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
24. Land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent.
27. A decree that prohibits something.
28. Having been read.
30. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
31. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
34. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
35. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
36. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
38. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
40. Ancient city southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius.
44. An audiotape recording of sound.
46. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
47. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
51. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
52. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
53. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
55. Type genus of the Cracidae.
56. A small cake leavened with yeast.
57. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
59. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
61. 3 to 30 kilohertz.
62. An informal term for a father.
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