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1. The compass point that is one point west of northwest.
5. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
10. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
13. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
14. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
15. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
16. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
18. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
19. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
20. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
23. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
25. The cry made by sheep.
26. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
29. An enclosed space.
31. Someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers.
38. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. Given freely especially to a cause or fund.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
46. Found along western Atlantic coast.
49. A quantity of no importance.
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
57. The habitation of wild animals.
59. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
60. Make less active or intense.
61. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
62. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
63. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
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1. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
2. English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542).
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
5. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
6. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
7. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
8. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
9. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
10. (British) Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms.
11. Jordan's port.
12. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
17. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
24. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
27. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
28. The template for protein synthesis.
30. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
34. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
35. Of or being the lowest female voice.
36. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
37. A slight amount or degree of difference.
39. Dragonflies and damselflies.
40. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
41. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
44. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. Full of zest or vigor.
49. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
51. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
52. Baby bed with high sides.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. A decree that prohibits something.
57. Informal terms for a mother.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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