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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
9. The elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object.
13. The capital and largest city of Norway.
14. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
15. Large European dormouse.
16. Sour or bitter in taste.
19. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
23. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
24. Fallow deer.
26. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
36. An informal term for a father.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. The part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
53. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
57. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
60. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
61. (informal) Of the highest quality.
62. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
64. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
65. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
66. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
67. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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1. A committee having supervisory powers.
2. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
3. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
4. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. The face or front of a building.
7. Before noon.
8. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
9. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
10. United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931).
11. (`lief' is archaic) Very willing.
12. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
18. A genus of Platalea.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
27. An enclosed space.
28. The closing section of a musical composition.
29. Again but in a new or different way.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
39. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
40. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
43. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
46. Any plant of the genus Erica.
47. Held back.
49. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
51. Strike sharply.
52. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
54. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
55. English essayist (1775-1834).
56. A bachelor's degree in library science.
58. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
59. (informal) Roused to anger.
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