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1. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
5. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
10. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
18. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
19. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
20. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
21. (Bible) The archangel who was the messenger of God.
23. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
25. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
27. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
40. Large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A state in the western United States.
44. 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.
46. Make amends for.
47. Offering little or no hope.
53. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
55. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
57. Used of a single unit or thing.
58. Type genus of the Bramidae.
61. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
62. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
63. An honorary arts degree.
64. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
3. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
4. Someone whose employment involves carrying something.
5. The eleventh month of the civil year.
6. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
7. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
8. An inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Colombia.
9. German dramatist (1813-1863).
10. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
11. American novelist (1909-1955).
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
17. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. A heavy precious metallic element.
26. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
28. God of death.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
33. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
34. English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829).
36. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
37. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
38. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
39. The fourth month of the civil year.
41. Rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey.
45. Jordan's port.
48. A Russian river.
49. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
50. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
51. Using speech rather than writing.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
56. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
59. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
60. A public promotion of some product or service.
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