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1. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
5. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
9. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. Made of or resembling lace.
15. The sixth month of the civil year.
16. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
17. Slightly open.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. (dentistry) A filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. (superlative of `good') Having the most positive qualities.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
36. Being one more than two.
37. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
39. A loss of will power.
41. English monk and scholar (672-735).
42. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
43. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
47. Minor or subordinate.
48. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
52. God of love and erotic desire.
56. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
60. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
61. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
63. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
64. Not divisible by two.
65. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
66. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
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1. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
2. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. The striking of one body against another.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
7. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
8. A port in southwestern Scotland.
9. Of or relating to Fabianism.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
12. Toward the mouth or oral region.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
23. 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.
25. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
29. A small stream.
30. Being three more than fifty.
31. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
33. An informal term for a father.
34. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
35. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
38. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
40. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
44. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. Wearing or provided with clothing.
50. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
51. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
53. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
54. Female equine animal.
55. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
57. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
58. Noisy talk.
59. A former French coin of low denomination.
60. An associate degree in nursing.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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