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1. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
13. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
14. Jordan's port.
15. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
16. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
17. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
18. A formation of people or things one beside another.
19. A milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives.
21. French novelist.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
27. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.
30. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
32. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
34. An honorary degree in science.
35. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
38. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
39. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
41. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
43. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
45. A state in New England.
46. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
47. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
50. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed.
59. Morally bad or wrong.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
62. The last (12th) month of the year.
65. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
66. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
67. Type genus of the family Ostreidae.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
3. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
4. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
5. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
6. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
7. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. A sudden numbing dread.
10. Of or relating to epizoa.
11. Obvious and dull.
12. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
20. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
22. American Revolutionary patriot.
24. An honorary degree in science.
25. The housing or outer covering of something.
28. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
29. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
33. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
36. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695).
41. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
42. A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis).
44. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
48. Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year.
49. Any plant of the genus Erica.
51. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
56. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
58. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
63. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
64. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
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