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1. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
4. Inclined to or serving for the giving of names.
10. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
15. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
16. How long something has existed.
17. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
19. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
21. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
23. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
25. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
32. A loss of will power.
34. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
36. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
40. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
42. Singing jazz.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
48. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
50. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
57. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
58. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
61. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
62. A loud harsh or strident noise.
63. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
64. On or toward the lee.
65. Late time of life.
66. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
2. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
3. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
4. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
5. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
6. A thin fog with condensation near the ground v 1.
7. The content of cognition.
8. (British) Your grandmother.
9. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. One thousandth of a second.
11. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. (informal) Roused to anger.
20. A Loloish language.
22. An informal term for a father.
24. An oil port in southern Iraq.
26. A French abbot.
27. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
28. South African term for `boss'.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
31. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
33. 16 ounces.
35. A state in southeastern United States.
38. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
41. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
43. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876).
47. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
49. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
50. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
51. Fail to do something.
52. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
53. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
54. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
56. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
59. Not in good physical or mental health.
60. The cry made by sheep.
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