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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
10. Either extremity of something that has length.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
14. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
15. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
16. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
18. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
20. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
21. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
23. Beads used in counting prayers (especially Catholic rosary).
24. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
38. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
39. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
40. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
44. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
45. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
48. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
52. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
53. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
57. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
58. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
59. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
61. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
62. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
63. A native of ancient Troy.
64. The capital and largest city of Japan.
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1. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
2. Ancient Athenian philosopher.
3. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
4. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
5. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
6. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
7. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
10. Expel, as of gases and odors.
11. 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.
12. An informal term for a father.
17. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
25. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
26. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
27. Inferior in strength or significance.
28. Noisy talk.
29. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956).
36. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
41. An epic in Latin by Virgil.
42. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
43. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
46. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
47. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
49. Any competition.
50. Bound or secured closely.
51. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. A doctor's degree in education.
56. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
60. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
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