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1. Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to.
4. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
10. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. King of Wessex.
15. A periodic paperback publication.
16. Of or relating to herbs.
18. The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time.
20. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.
22. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
23. A form of address for a man.
24. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
33. The unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container.
36. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
37. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
53. (informal) Exceptionally good.
57. A port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production.
58. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
59. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
60. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
61. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
3. A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators.
4. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
5. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
6. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
7. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
10. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
11. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
12. Advanced in years.
17. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
19. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
21. Many times at short intervals.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. Suggestive of the supernatural.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. Divulge information or secrets.
31. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
32. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
34. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
35. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
43. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
44. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
46. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
47. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
49. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
50. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
51. The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale).
52. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
54. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
55. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
56. Characteristic of a mob.
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