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1. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
5. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
9. A fastener for a door or lid.
13. Located in or toward the back or rear.
14. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
15. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
16. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
17. Being precisely fitting and right.
18. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
19. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
21. German theologian and mystic (1260-1327).
23. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
24. Not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied.
25. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
29. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
33. The grasses.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. The sixth month of the civil year.
38. God of wealth and love.
39. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
49. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
53. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
54. French tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
58. The month following February and preceding April.
59. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
60. A port city in southwestern Iran.
61. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
62. Black tropical American cuckoo.
63. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
64. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. The act of groping.
2. Kindly endorsement and guidance.
3. A motley assortment of things.
4. A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed.
5. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
6. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
7. The upper branches and leaves of a tree.
8. United States jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971).
9. A blind god.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
11. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
12. Relating to only part of a whole.
20. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
27. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
28. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
30. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. Obvious and dull.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
37. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
43. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
44. Informal terms for a mother.
45. A particular environment or walk of life.
47. A primeval personification of air and breath.
48. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
49. A state in northwestern North America.
50. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
51. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
52. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
57. Tag the base runner to get him out.
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