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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. A Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation.
10. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
13. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
14. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
15. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
16. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
17. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
19. Large mackerel with long pointed snout.
21. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
22. The cry made by sheep.
24. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
25. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
31. In bed.
37. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
39. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
40. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
42. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
43. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. A port city in southwestern Iran.
48. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
53. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
54. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
59. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
60. The month following March and preceding May.
61. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
62. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
63. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
64. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Speaking a Slavic language.
4. Shout loudly and without restraint.
5. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
6. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
7. An honorary degree in science.
8. Largest crested screamer.
9. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
10. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
11. A means of serving.
12. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
23. (informal) Of the highest quality.
26. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
27. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
28. Extremely pleasing.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
35. A shape that sags.
36. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
38. Dignified manner or conduct.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
45. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
47. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
49. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
50. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
51. Common Indian weaverbird.
52. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
55. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
56. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
57. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
58. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
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