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1. The products of human creativity.
4. A tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave.
10. A port in southwestern Scotland.
13. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
14. A semiautomatic rifle.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
16. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
17. United States playwright (1906-1963).
19. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
28. The fourth or lowest deck.
32. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
35. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
37. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
38. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
40. Being eight more than ninety.
43. An enclosed space.
44. Regional and archaic.
46. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
47. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
50. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
54. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
60. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
61. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
62. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
63. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
64. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
65. United States film actor who appeared in many films with Katharine Hepburn (1900-1967).
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
2. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
3. A heading that names a statute or legislative bill.
4. Highly excited.
5. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
6. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
7. Hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo.
8. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
9. A state in north central United States.
10. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
11. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
12. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
18. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
20. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
21. A rapid bustling commotion.
24. A bottle with a stopper.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. Set down according to a plan.
30. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
31. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
33. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
34. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
36. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
39. First woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928).
40. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
41. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
42. Meat from a calf.
45. English monk and scholar (672-735).
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
51. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
52. 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.
53. Type genus of the Majidae.
55. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
58. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
59. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
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