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1. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
4. A convex shape that narrows toward a point.
9. One thousandth of a second.
13. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
14. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
15. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
16. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
17. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
18. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
19. Jordan's port.
21. A native of ancient Troy.
23. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
26. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
27. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
32. Indigo bush.
37. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
38. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
40. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
41. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
43. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
44. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
46. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
48. Someone who escapes.
52. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
56. Jordan's port.
57. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
59. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
60. The month following August and preceding October.
61. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
64. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
65. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
66. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
67. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
2. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
3. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
4. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
7. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
8. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
9. (combining form) Very large in scale or scope or capability.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
11. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
12. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
20. Soft creamy white cheese.
22. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
29. An informal term for a father.
30. A major god.
31. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
35. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
36. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
39. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. A large stringed instrument.
47. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
48. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
49. Having an oblique or slanting direction or position.
50. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
51. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
53. (`lief' is archaic) Very willing.
54. In bed.
55. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
58. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
62. Before noon.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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