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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
10. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy.
15. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. The part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks.
18. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
19. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
22. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
23. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
24. The content of cognition.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. An unofficial association of people or groups.
33. A small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged.
35. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
38. English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957).
40. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
41. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
42. An audiotape recording of sound.
44. An informal term for a father.
48. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
55. Turned or twisted toward one side.
58. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
59. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
60. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
61. Bound or secured closely.
62. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
63. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
64. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A sudden very loud noise.
2. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
5. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
6. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
7. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
8. Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504).
9. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
10. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
11. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
20. An iconic mental representation.
21. Having three dimensions.
25. Formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
26. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. A quantity of no importance.
32. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
34. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
39. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
43. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
45. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
46. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
47. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
48. Unknown god.
49. Absent without permission.
50. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
51. Slightly wet.
52. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
53. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. An informal term for a father.
56. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
57. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
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