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1. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
4. A port and state capital of Tasmania.
10. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
17. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
19. A thrusting blow with a knife.
21. A period of time spent sleeping.
22. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
31. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
36. A Russian river.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Covered with paving material.
40. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. Half the width of an em.
47. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
49. Type genus of the Triglidae.
53. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
55. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
57. A drama set to music.
60. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
63. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
64. The act of scanning.
65. Bringing death.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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1. Large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters.
2. Having winglike extensions.
3. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
4. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
5. Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting.
6. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
7. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
8. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
9. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
11. A quantity of no importance.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
20. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. 10 grams.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
33. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
34. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
35. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
39. Informal terms for the mouth.
41. A port town on the Atlantic coast of Portugal southeast of Lisbon.
46. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
48. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
50. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
51. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
52. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
54. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
59. Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument.
61. A radioactive transuranic element.
62. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
63. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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