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1. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
4. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
9. A large number or amount.
13. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
14. Lower in esteem.
15. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
16. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
18. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
19. A native of ancient Troy.
21. A tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. The square of a body of any size of type.
26. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
27. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
43. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
47. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
51. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
55. The cry made by sheep.
56. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
59. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
60. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
61. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
62. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
63. An informal term for a father.
64. Of a tire.
65. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
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1. (South Africa) A small hill rising up from the African veld.
2. State of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior.
3. Gather, as of as crops.
4. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
5. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
10. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
11. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
17. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
20. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
22. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
23. A light touch or stroke.
28. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
29. South African term for `boss'.
31. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
35. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
38. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
39. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
40. The quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks.
41. A Loloish language.
42. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
43. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
48. God of death.
49. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
50. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
52. An extravagantly enthusiastic review.
53. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
54. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
57. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
58. A master's degree in education.
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