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1. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
5. A particular situation.
10. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
13. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
14. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
15. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
16. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
18. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
20. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
22. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
23. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
26. A yellow quartz.
29. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
33. Be obliged to pay or repay.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
39. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
41. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
42. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
46. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
47. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
48. A lizard of the family Agamidae.
53. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
57. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
58. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
60. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
61. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
62. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
63. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
64. Black tropical American cuckoo.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
3. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn place in a garment.
4. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
5. The act of scanning.
6. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
7. In operation or operational.
8. Either extremity of something that has length.
9. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
10. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
11. A state of extreme poverty.
12. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
17. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
19. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
21. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
24. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
25. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
27. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
28. Liquid excretory product.
30. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
31. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
38. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
40. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
43. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
44. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
45. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
46. An associate degree in nursing.
49. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
50. A metallic tapping sound.
51. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
52. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
54. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
55. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
59. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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