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1. Something acquired without compensation.
5. Of a pale purple color.
10. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
14. Informal terms for dogs.
15. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
16. (Welsh myth) The other world.
17. A city of east central Mexico (west of Veracruz).
18. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
20. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
21. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
23. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
27. Informal terms for a mother.
28. A flexible container with a single opening.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
40. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
44. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
50. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
53. Cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill).
54. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
56. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. Islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal.
61. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
62. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
63. German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992).
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
2. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
3. A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.
4. A hard blow with a flat object.
5. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
6. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
7. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
8. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
9. Young bird especially of domestic fowl.
10. The father of your father or mother.
11. Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras.
12. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
19. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
22. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
24. Type genus of the Amiidae.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A state in northwestern North America.
29. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
36. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
41. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
42. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
45. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
46. Slices of bread that have been toasted.
47. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
51. Not agitated.
52. Slightly open.
55. A state of southwestern India.
59. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
60. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
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