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1. Baby bed with high sides.
5. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
9. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
13. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
14. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
15. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
16. Of or relating to near the ear.
17. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
18. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
19. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
21. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
23. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
24. Before noon.
25. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
33. Someone whose business is advertising.
36. A state of southwestern India.
37. A festival featuring African-American culture.
39. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
41. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
42. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
43. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. By bad luck.
47. A fraudulent business scheme.
54. An accidental happening.
58. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
59. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
60. A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission.
62. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
63. How long something has existed.
64. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
65. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
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1. The yield from plants in a single growing season.
2. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
3. Goddess of fertility.
4. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
5. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. Source of a tough elastic wood.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
12. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
20. United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919).
22. A manicurist who trims the fingernails.
26. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
27. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. The cry made by sheep.
30. Largest known toad species.
31. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
32. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
34. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
35. South African term for `boss'.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
46. A radioactive transuranic element.
48. 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.
49. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
52. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
53. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
55. A young woman making her debut into society.
56. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
57. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
61. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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