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1. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
4. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
10. The bill in a restaurant.
13. (Irish) The sea personified.
14. A stringed instrument usually having six strings.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
17. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
19. Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929).
21. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
22. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. Family based on male descent.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. The use of dye to change the color of something permanently.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings.
36. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
37. A small island.
39. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
40. A city in northern India.
42. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
44. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
45. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
53. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
57. Relating to or lying near the palate.
59. German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20-th century German literature (1875-1926).
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
64. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
65. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
66. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
67. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
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1. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
2. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
3. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
4. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
5. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
6. (informal) Having been got the better of.
7. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
8. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
9. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
10. A three-tone Chadic language.
11. With rapid movements.
12. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
18. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. City in Sudan.
25. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
28. A state in midwestern United States.
29. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
31. A cgs unit of work or energy.
32. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
34. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
35. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
38. A town in east central Missouri.
39. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
46. Lower in esteem.
48. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
50. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
51. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
54. Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge.
55. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
56. Located in or toward the back or rear.
58. The sound made by a gentle blow.
62. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
63. 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.
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