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1. Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
5. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
10. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
13. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
14. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
17. Denuded of leaves.
19. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
21. Primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull.
23. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
26. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
27. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. (archaic) Of persons.
34. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
35. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
36. Seed of a pea plant.
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
42. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
44. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
45. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
46. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
51. Enthusiastic approval.
56. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
57. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
59. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
60. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
61. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
63. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
64. Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.
65. A port city in southwestern Iran.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
4. Large scissors with strong blades.
5. A person's brother or sister.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
8. A primeval personification of air and breath.
9. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
10. By bad luck.
11. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
18. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
25. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
28. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
31. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
32. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
33. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
38. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
40. (informal) Of the highest quality.
41. The act of scanning.
43. A written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition.
47. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
48. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
52. Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning.
53. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
54. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
55. Offering fun and gaiety.
58. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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