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1. A unit of pressure.
4. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
10. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
13. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
14. A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun.
15. Used of a single unit or thing.
16. Being one more than nine.
17. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
19. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. Being two more than fifty.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
28. Avatar of Vishnu.
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
36. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. Any high mountain.
46. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
52. An elaborate song for solo voice.
53. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
57. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
58. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
60. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
61. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. An honorary arts degree.
2. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
3. An island northwest of Wales.
4. Of southern Europe.
5. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
6. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
7. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
8. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
9. An associate degree in nursing.
10. The grasses.
11. Register formally.
12. (used informally) Very small.
18. Covered with paving material.
20. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
26. (informal) Exceptionally good.
27. Little known Kamarupan languages.
30. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
31. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
32. Tag the base runner to get him out.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
39. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
41. Lower in esteem.
42. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
44. The sacred city of Lamaism.
45. Type genus of the Percidae.
47. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
48. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
49. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
50. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
51. A French abbot.
54. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
55. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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