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1. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
5. Any light downy material.
10. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
13. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
14. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
15. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
17. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
18. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
19. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
21. Lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod.
23. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
25. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
33. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
37. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. Gone by.
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. A river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River.
48. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
54. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
57. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
61. An informal term for a father.
62. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
63. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
65. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
66. The dense colorless framework of a chloroplast.
67. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
5. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
6. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
7. (used of certain religious orders) Barefoot or wearing only sandals.
8. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
9. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
10. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
20. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
22. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
24. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
26. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
27. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
29. The airforce of Great Britain.
30. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. English monk and scholar (672-735).
34. Lower in esteem.
35. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
36. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
38. A person who is physically weak and ineffectual.
39. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
43. A master's degree in business.
46. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
47. Talk pompously.
49. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
50. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
53. Little known Kamarupan languages.
54. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
55. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
56. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
58. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
59. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
60. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
64. A radioactive transuranic element.
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