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1. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
5. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
9. A closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
15. The goddess of the moon.
16. (informal) Of very poor quality.
18. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
19. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
20. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
23. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
25. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
31. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
35. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. A Hindu prince or king in India.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
45. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
46. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
49. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
53. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
54. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
57. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
58. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
59. The person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. Used of a single unit or thing.
63. Gained or acquired.
64. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
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1. Related to or located at the back.
2. A city in northern India.
3. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus).
4. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
5. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
6. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
9. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
10. A member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California.
11. An unforeseen obstacle.
12. Flat and uninspiring.
17. God of death.
21. An associate degree in nursing.
22. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
26. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
27. Any of various units of capacity.
28. A state in the western United States.
29. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
30. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. An honorary arts degree.
36. Urge or force (a person) to an action.
37. A steep descent of the water of a river.
38. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
42. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
43. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
44. Dwell (archaic).
47. Very dark black.
48. Slightly open.
50. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
51. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
52. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
55. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
56. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
60. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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