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1. The compass point that is one point south of southwest.
5. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
10. Your general store of remembered information.
13. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
14. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
17. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
18. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
19. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
21. A special loved one.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
26. English potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827).
29. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Being ten more than eighty.
37. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
42. In bed.
43. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
44. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
45. Sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
46. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
49. Resembling a serpent in form.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
56. A member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon.
58. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
59. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
60. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
63. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
64. The cry made by sheep.
65. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
66. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
2. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
3. Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.
4. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
5. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
6. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. A notable achievement.
9. The condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded).
10. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
11. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
12. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
20. How long something has existed.
22. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
24. In some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae.
27. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
28. Using speech rather than writing.
30. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
31. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
32. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
33. Give over.
35. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
39. (informal) A man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric.
41. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
42. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. The woody part of plants.
48. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
50. A quantity of no importance.
51. A Loloish language.
52. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
53. A female domestic.
54. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
55. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
57. A master's degree in business.
61. A state in midwestern United States.
62. A state in southeastern United States.
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