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1. A Russian river.
5. Small stocky Mexican fish.
10. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
13. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
14. Indigo bush.
15. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Lean end of the neck.
18. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
19. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
20. Capital of modern Macedonia.
22. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
24. Being of the age 13 through 19.
26. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
29. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
30. Performs some wicked deed.
34. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
37. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
38. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
39. Type genus of the Apidae.
42. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
43. Avatar of Vishnu.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
47. The act of scanning.
48. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
62. Of or relating to or involving an area.
63. 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.
64. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
65. Jordan's port.
66. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
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1. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
2. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
3. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
4. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
5. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
6. A cry of sorrow and grief.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
9. Either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship.
10. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
11. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
12. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
17. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
21. A loose cloak with a hood.
23. A family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes.
25. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
27. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
28. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
31. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
32. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
33. (poetic) Tranquil silence.
35. The sacred city of Lamaism.
36. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
40. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
41. Of or relating to the Sinhalese languages.
46. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
50. In bed.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A heavy precious metallic element.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. Indicating the most important performer or role.
55. Common Indian weaverbird.
56. Hit hard.
58. The cry made by sheep.
59. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
60. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
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