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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
10. The residue that remains when something is burned.
13. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
14. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
17. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
21. Coming into existence.
23. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
31. A tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top.
36. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
37. A city of central China.
40. An iconic mental representation.
41. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
44. Affect with wonder.
47. Of or relating to or involving an area.
48. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression.
52. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
55. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
56. Type genus of the Suidae.
60. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
61. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
62. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
63. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
3. 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.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
6. (Irish) The sea personified.
7. A proud stiff pompous gait.
8. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2).
9. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
10. American novelist (1909-1955).
11. The act of scanning.
12. United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961).
20. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
22. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
25. How long something has existed.
26. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
28. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
29. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
30. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
32. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
33. Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity.
34. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani.
35. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
38. Toward the mouth or oral region.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
43. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
45. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
50. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
51. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
53. The cry made by sheep.
54. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
55. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
57. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
58. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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