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1. Extremely pleasing.
4. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
9. Avatar of Vishnu.
13. The sign language used in the United States.
14. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
15. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
16. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
17. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
18. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
19. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
21. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
23. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
24. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
27. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
36. The month following March and preceding May.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
44. An unofficial association of people or groups.
46. An enclosed space.
47. Dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin.
50. An indication of approved or superior status.
54. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
55. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
58. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
59. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
62. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
63. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
65. An advanced law degree.
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1. A steep descent of the water of a river.
2. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
3. Divulge information or secrets.
4. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
5. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
6. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
7. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
8. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
9. A motley assortment of things.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
12. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
25. A licensed medical practitioner.
26. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
28. By bad luck.
29. A master's degree in library science.
30. An Eskimo hut.
32. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
33. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. (informal) Exceptionally good.
38. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
39. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
41. In bed.
43. The cry made by sheep.
45. Greek mythology.
46. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
48. Not fake or counterfeit.
49. A quantity of no importance.
51. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
52. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
53. Thin and fit.
56. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
57. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
58. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
61. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
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