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1. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
5. Make less active or intense.
10. Inquire about.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
17. By chance.
18. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
19. A large fleet.
21. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
23. A Russian river.
25. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
27. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. An honorary arts degree.
35. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
37. A hard protective sheath as secreted by certain protoctists e.g..
38. Witty remark.
39. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
40. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
41. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
45. A thin strip (wood or metal).
48. Top part of an apron.
49. (USSR) A collective farm owned by the communist state.
52. Cause to be embarrassed.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. Lower in esteem.
60. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
61. A person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war.
62. A long brightly colored shawl.
64. A resource.
65. Adult female chicken.
66. A port city in southwestern Iran.
67. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Adopted in order to deceive.
4. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
5. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. Make amends for.
8. A set of data arranged in rows and columns.
9. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
10. A city in northern India.
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
20. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
22. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
24. In bed.
26. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
28. A small nail.
29. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
32. Semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental.
33. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. An informal term for a father.
36. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
42. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A French abbot.
46. The sacred city of Lamaism.
47. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
50. A slender double-reed instrument.
51. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
52. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
53. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
54. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
55. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
58. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
59. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
63. Half the width of an em.
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