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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
5. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
9. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
13. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
14. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
15. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
16. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
17. Praise, glorify, or honor.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A large fleet.
22. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
25. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. The residue that remains when something is burned.
35. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
37. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
39. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
40. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
43. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. An informal term for a father.
49. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
52. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
54. The content of cognition.
56. The capital of Morocco.
58. A small nail.
61. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
62. A human limb.
63. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
65. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
66. The foot of a human being.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A wine bottle made of leather.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A large quantity of written matter.
4. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States.
8. A slight amount or degree of difference.
9. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
10. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
11. One of the three sections of the hipbone.
12. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
20. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
24. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A sudden short attack.
31. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
33. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A genus of Platalea.
38. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
46. Jordan's port.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
53. A Spanish river.
55. Fallow deer.
57. The bill in a restaurant.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
60. A light touch or stroke.
64. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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