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1. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
4. That is on a string.
10. The seventh and last day of the week.
13. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
14. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
15. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
16. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
17. Poor enough to need help from others.
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
28. A communication system using fiber optic cables.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
35. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
36. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
37. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
39. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
41. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
42. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
44. A Loloish language.
46. Being nine more than ninety.
47. God of wealth and love.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
59. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
60. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
61. Of or relating to a wedding.
62. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
63. A young woman making her debut into society.
64. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
65. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
5. Something considered choice to eat.
6. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
7. Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect.
8. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
9. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
11. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
12. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
18. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
20. In bed.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
24. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
26. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
27. God of love and erotic desire.
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
31. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
33. Not only so, but.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
38. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
40. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
43. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
45. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
46. Take in solid food.
48. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. Noisy talk.
56. A human limb.
57. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
58. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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